contractor
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According to the authority, a Home Office contractor, Serco, is taking on leases in the area on the open market to accommodate asylum seekers.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
An employee at defense contractor IEH Corp. was taken in by a hacker posing as a business prospect, the company said Thursday in a filing with the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
And the DOD hasn’t limited itself to mining, inking a $1 billion investment in defense contractor L3Harris’s Missile Solutions unit in exchange for convertible equity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Amid the setbacks, Wang’s dad stepped in as a contractor and Wang’s mom volunteered to serve as construction liaison.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
The contractor knew enough Spanish, and the Mexicans—or at least the oldest of them, their spokesman— seemed to know enough English to communicate.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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First attempts to scrub off the paint on the court were not completely successful, so contractors have been on site using "laser technology".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Braham, which has an annual budget of $2.5 million, has no in-house IT department and relies on outside contractors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Lineage contractors installed air filtration systems to reduce the amount of air contaminants seeping out of the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Officials are also considering stakes in sectors relevant to national security and supply-chain resilience like defense contractors and critical minerals.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Instead, a number of established firms designed patterns and prepared the fabric, and then the complicated stitching and pressing and button attaching were all sent out to small contractors.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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