The Suharto children enjoyed dozens of special arrangements, ranging from a monopoly in cloves (which Indonesians use in cigarettes) to privileged access to road-building contracts.
His suicide seemed linked to accusations that he had been fiddling his expenses, and was involved in a scandal about rigged bidding for road-building contracts.
No one thinks China is going to make drastic changes to what is a signature national programme. (And one from which it hopes to spin off lucrative contracts building railways in Algeria, Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and elsewhere.) But it might postpone some of the dizzier schemes, such as one to build a freight line across mountainous northern Colombia to rival the Panama canal.
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Many indebted hospitals are carrying the extra burden of Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts for building and maintenance agreed years ago.
Land-grabbers who rented government plots illegally to fly-by-night shops, taking money that belonged to the city. (Mr Hamidi would burst into such places with shovel in hand, pushing people aside, shouting at them to clear their rubbish away.) And, over all these, the swaggering local powerbrokers who demanded their share of the opium trade, the military contracts and the building projects, like boys fighting for candy at a wedding.
Building firms McAlpine and Wates won contracts from the Department for Education to build or renovate schools in the north of England and Coventry.
Much worse could follow as the new board steers contracts to law and building firms, especially if a proposed enlargement of the canal goes ahead.
George Gero, precious-metals strategist with RBC Capital Markets Global Futures, pointed out that the number of open positions in Comex gold for contracts beyond 2012 is building.
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Bulgarian building firms are well placed to win contracts in Yugoslavia.
The company also has private finance initiative contracts with schools, including the building of a new Barnhill Community School in west London.
As a former boss of Hyundai Construction, he has first-hand experience both of vying for contracts in the Gulf and of building nuclear plants.
But Invesco also felt that BAE had good prospects as a stand-alone business, building up its security operations and exploiting further defence contracts in the Middle East.
Once seen as badly trailing its competitors in areas such as directional drilling and drilling fluids, Halliburton now has everything it needs to win contracts for projects such as designing, building and operating systems to manage production from oilfields.
Based in Kapolei, HI, Hoku, which is also building a polysilicon plant in Pocatello, ID, has contracts with Solar-Fabrik and Sanyo Electric.
Nevertheless, its building arm makes it a more effective bidder on PFI contracts, which are the meat and drink of big construction firms in Britain.
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However, the allegations raise ethical questions about the Popular Party's dealings during the period of Spain's building boom, when politicians granted large numbers of development contracts.
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As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts.
Neath-based Express Reinforcements won a contract from the main contractor building the Olympic Stadium, while Euroclad in Cardiff won contracts on both the Olympic Stadium and the main broadcast centre.
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The first two multi-million pound contracts have been awarded for England's new school building programme.
Mr Haughey turned out to have been awarded large contracts by one of the newly created companies: City Building, the council's former building-works department.
Seeing few other domestic opportunities on which to place bets with the cash they had accumulated during flush years, military contractors poured into the cyberwarfare field, building operations centers, purchasing niche players, and competing aggressively for contracts.
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After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Improvements to the main building, gym facilities and campsite, are scheduled to be made within two years of the contracts being signed.
Some of the UK's leading building companies have been handed big fines by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for rigging bids for contracts.
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