contractor
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He told employees in a February memo that the contractor wanted to hire 8,000 workers by the year’s end in Connecticut and another plant in Quonset Point, R.I.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
A coworker urged her to not speak out again, she said, but she ended up losing her job after the contractor stopped calling her.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Hanan Balkhy, the WHO's regional director, described the killing of the contractor as "a devastating loss" and warned that the suspension of medical evacuations was "cutting off a critical pathway to care for patients".
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The ethical question was a factor in Maven's early years, when Google was the program's original AI contractor.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Local contractor L. S. Gaillard worked hard to make the needed repairs to the church.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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