contractor
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Longer term, the city has secured a contractor to carry out permanent repairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The project’s masonry contractor was a firm called Acranom, whose vice president, John Duffy, was Diamantis’s former brother-in-law and called him “Uncle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Three years ago, the older brother retired from his second career as a contractor, sold his home and moved several states away to a ski town.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Higgins Homes was the principal contractor and designer of the project to build a block of flats.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Haupt's father, Hans, was a bricklayer and had found work as a contractor and painter.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The CoC board, which includes representatives of homeless services contractors, hired outside consultants to set up an emergency bidding process and score the applicants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Environment Agency-led clean-up operation began in June 2025 and has seen 2,500 lorry loads of waste removed from the woods by specialist contractors to a landfill site in Essex.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The companies are also being asked to disclose any claim-related elements of compensation packages for employees and others, such as contractors and adjusters, involved in determining payouts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The site employs local contractors and businesses and pays royalties to over 3,000 people who own mineral rights, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Were there contractors and laborers working around the clock on a prison days after the hurricane?
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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