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- Nov 07, 2020
Contractors Quotes
On the people who build, and the risks they take.
This contractors quotes page covers the danger faced by contractors working in conflict zones, alongside the years-long reality of working with Construction contractors to build a home.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The competitive pressure to produce, buy, and sell to our global multi-national companies is so intense that contractors in supply chains are motivated to pay low wages, intensify exploitative conditions, keep workers fearful with insecure work contracts, or simply sack workers who have formed a union to fight back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of fighters want that freedom to have their own sponsorships. When you think about it, how do you make independent contractors wear a uniform? That just seems strange to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.
- American Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Nisour Square shooting is a signature point in the Iraq war, one that inflamed anti-American sentiment abroad and contributed to the impression that Americans were reckless and unaccountable. The Iraqi government wanted to prosecute the security contractors in Iraq, but the American government refused to allow it.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.
- Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020