Construction of the Inspire Luton Sports Village in Stopsley was delayed by five weeks after three sub-contractors went into administration.
In another effort to stoke public alarm over the pending cuts, Carney told reporters that top defense contractors met at the White House with senior administration officials to discuss the impacts on their industry.
For example, the Administration is working to speed up payments to small business contractors.
The Bloomberg administration has long shown an interest in turning to private contractors to help run the city's parking system.
The president wants to double U.S. exports by 2015, and his administration is working with the private sector (notably defense contractors) to rewrite decades-old export control rules.
One sign: The administration earlier this year rescinded a Bush-era executive order requiring federal contractors to notify workers of their rights under Beck.
The Obama Administration issued a memorandum ( White House link) late Friday, instructing Federal contractors that they should not provide WARN Act notice to employees facing sequestration.
At HUD, some telephone hotline services run by outside contractors providing housing counseling services to the public were still operating on Friday, including the Federal Housing Administration Resource Center.
As part of the festivities, the Small Business Administration is recognizing the achievements of more than 100 small-business owners, lending organizations, contractors and support groups from around the nation, including the National Small Business Person of the Year.
In the intervening period, the Clinton Administration -- which remains adamantly opposed to such a step -- commissioned two studies by defense contractors intended to undercut the case for additional procurement of B-2 bombers.
Cheating is rare on expensive tests such as the SATs, ACTs, APs and NAEP because test-givers and their contractors spend what it takes to have their sessions proctored, their test booklets kept secure before and after their administration, and the scoring done by individuals or machines in distant locations that are unaffected by the results of that scoring.
Back in April, when you talked about the executive order not happening at this time, you said that the administration was committed to directly engaging with and educating all sectors of the business community from major corporations to contractors to small businesses, and raising public awareness about the human and financial cost of discrimination in the workforce.
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