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Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me, Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hast laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" (Job 38:1-7)
What?
I know what you mean! how can a company's ONLY financial policy be to lay people off/fire people when they don't meet the books/quarter because of their STUPID decisions!!
can't wait to be able to make crappy products on the moon, too! and to patent them!!
is the FAA paying attention?
reminds me of a cartoon I once saw...
http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/2000/04/040900borgman.html
who's paying these ceo's, I wonder
(DUH)
http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/2000/04/040900borgman.html
http://borgman.enquirer.com/weekly/daily_html/
2000/04/040900
borgman.html
well, the churches have a lot to lose, too, "God's"/their 10% for their pensions and kids' college, especially the ones closely affiliated with them
too bad Ken Griffey Jr. can't play for the Red Sox (wasted non-steroid talent)
what if the company/vendor marriage leads to power turbine fires? and the safety board isn't doing anything about it...
olden days, 2 lawyers per company
nowadays, 2 engineers/products/lawyer
corporate america/corporate church, the new mafia
new requirement for engineering graduation: safety town
America and China, unequally yoked
What's the exchange rate for proprietary information in China, India, Mexico and Puerto Rico for American designs?
Dumb and Dumber; who's dictating who?
why not reinstitute child labor laws? we have kid nation, kid porn, pedophelia, etc, that way, we could keep the money AND the secrets in the FAMILY where they belong, and not all over the world
Did Corporate AMerica sign a pre-nup with China? did the Corporate American church, the so-called "bride" of Christ?
I feel like I've been punched in the gut!
China = America on steroids
how do you spell Ohio? G-R-A-F-T
(how much are they paying the FAA?)
trade ya a morphing toy for a morphing engine on the black market
maybe we should have China build our prisons, too!
maybe we should make the business environment look more like a bar; probably get more done
cost reduction means going behind the FAA's back and taking parts out of the commercial and military jet engines that were there when the engines were FAA certified; cost reduction means reducing performance on gas turbines; cost reduction means putting power turbines in the field that are catching fire; cost reduction means parts on gas turbines lasting 3 days in the field and blowing out millions of dollars worth of damage down the rest of the engine (great marketing stategies too!)
Big Dig firm pleads guilty to fraud
as part of $50 million settlement
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/08/firm_pleads_gui.html
Monday, August 27, 2007
Firm pleads guilty to fraud for supplying bad concrete for Big Dig
By Sean P. Murphy and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
A federal judge accepted a guilty plea today from Aggregate Industries NE Inc. for supplying 5,700 truckloads of substandard concrete on the Big Dig as part of a settlement in a fraud case that will cost the company $50 million.
Roberto Huet, president of Aggregate, the region's largest concrete supplier, stood in US District Court in Boston and agreed to the terms, which will help create an endowment to fund future repairs of the Big Dig. Judge Joseph L. Tauro asked Huet how the company would plead.
"Guilty," Huet said.
Fred M. Wyshak Jr., the federal prosecutor who headed the investigation, explained that "the policy of Aggregate was to provide concrete for the Big Dig that did not meet contract specifications."
"Leftover concrete on some occasions was mixed with new concrete and used on the Big Dig," Wyshak said in court. "On other occasions, entire truckloads of concrete rejected as too old or having too much water was used."
To hide the use of bad concrete, Aggregate officials falsified company records, writing up bogus batch tickets, Wyshak said.
Aggregate -- which was paid $105 million for its work on the Big Dig, including about $4.5 million for the substandard concrete -- agreed to pay $42 million to settle a civil investigation and $8 million in criminal fines.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Attorney General Martha Coakley have said they want $27 million of the settlement to be used as a first-of-its-kind endowment to pay for future maintenance and repairs on the long-troubled highway-and-tunnel project.
Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 11:20 AM
P&G plans update for Gillette plant
The $50 million renovation at the South Boston facility will accommodate about 500 Gillette employees vacating the Prudential Tower corporate headquarters.
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