And we believe, quite strongly believe, that there should be some changes in the law so that when any job is done a completion certificate is actually issues by whoever has done that job stating exactly what the work is, that it was done correctly and so on, and that information in fact would be held by Corgi.

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Among the industries that took the biggest hits, construction had 178 extended mass layoff events resulting in 20, 071 job losses, largely due to contract completion.

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This is something Daniel Libeskind knows all about, after 10 years on the job in Berlin guiding his competition-winning Jewish Museum to completion.

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