finance & business news archive (2002)

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12/26/2002 Spending, Tax, Transportation Bills Among Issues Facing New GOP Leader Frist

12/23/2002 Halliburton Says SEC Accounting Probe Now Formal

12/23/2002 Tutor Fights for Landing Rights

12/23/2002 Feds Get Ready to Outsource More

12/20/2002 McDermott Reaches Settlement Agreement for Babcock & Wilcox Asbestos Claims

12/20/2002 House Chairman Hopes to Pass FY2003 Spending Bills in January

12/18/2002 Halliburton Agrees in Principle to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Asbestos Claims

12/17/2002 FEMA Director WIll Leave Position March 1

12/16/2002 Biz-Savvy Graduates Fast-Tracked

12/12/2002 Halliburton Says Agreement Near on Asbestos Settlement Plan

12/09/2002 Three Union Directors Resign Over Handling of ULLICO Report

12/09/2002 Carpenters Fill Out the Lineup in Reunified Building Trades

11/27/2002 Terrorism Insurance Bill Signed Into Law

11/26/2002 Bush Signs Homeland Security Dept. Bill, Picks Ridge as Secretary

11/25/2002 Steel Erectors And Union Help OSHA Officers With New Rules

11/25/2002 Aid Plan for Terrorism Claims Clears Senate

11/20/2002 Senate Approves Homeland Security Dept. Bill

11/18/2002 Investors Are Kicking The Tires On Eastern European Projects

11/18/2002 Judge Enforces Order To Erase Window Firm's 'Since 1818' Claim

11/18/2002 Billions In Bond Finance Voted, But Big Defeats For Some Issues

11/18/2002 GOP Wins May Aid Industry Agenda

11/15/2002 House Approves Terrorism Insurance Bill

11/15/2002 House Votes to Extend 2002 Funding Into January

11/11/2002 ASCE Shaking Up Status Quo With New Programs, Leaders

11/11/2002 OMB Seeks More Small Businesses

11/06/2002 GOP Control of Congress May Give Key Bills a Push

11/04/2002 Engineers Set the Record Straight on Trade Center Study Results

11/04/2002 Red Blount dies at Age 81

11/04/2002 Construction Continues As Leader In Political Giving

10/31/2002 OMB Outlines Plan to

10/28/2002 China Starting To Crank Up Work For 2008 Olympics In Beijing

10/28/2002 Possible Military Strike At Iraq Has Middle East Work Slowing

10/28/2002 Bond Issues Target Schools, Roads

10/25/2002 Final Terrorism Insurance Bill Delayed on Hill

10/23/2002 Bush Signs Military Construction, Defense Spending Bills

10/22/2002 Final Agreement Nears on Terrorism Insurance Bill

10/17/2002 Congress Passes Temporary Spending Bill Through Nov. 22

10/14/2002 Economy, War And Consolidation Buffet Process Industry E&Cs

10/14/2002 Plan for Bankruptcy Opens New Chapter for Encompass

10/14/2002 Trouble Surrounds Encompass

10/11/2002 Congress Approves 1% Cut in Military Construction Funds

10/11/2002 Ninth Washington-Area Sniper Victim Was Engineer

10/10/2002 Conferees Agree on Small FY2003 Cut for Military Construction

10/07/2002 Bay State Death Rate Runs Low

10/04/2002 Bush Signs Second Short-Term Spending Bill

10/02/2002 Bush Signs Stopgap Spending Bill

09/30/2002 Congress Clears Short, Stopgap Spending Bill

09/30/2002 Supreme Court May Review Appellate Ruling on PLAs

09/30/2002 Reverse Auctions And Mold Risks Are Worrying AGC Contractors

09/30/2002 Michigan Challenges States Over Environmental Reviews

09/30/2002 Bush: Expedite Project Reviews

09/26/2002 Judge's Ruling Cuts Funds Available for WTC Reconstruction

09/25/2002 House Committee Clears Water Resources Measure, But Senate Bill Stalls

09/23/2002 Feds Sue Over Hotel Investment

09/20/2002 Balfour Beatty Drops Plan To Buy J.A. Jones

09/13/2002 Labor Dept. Sues Plumbers' Union Pension Trustees Over Resort Investment

09/09/2002 Second Fatality Hits Powerplant

09/09/2002 Securing Highway Bonds Spurs Pitched Legal Battle In Georgia

09/09/2002 Laborers Open A Charter School

09/06/2002 House Committee Approves 2003 Boosts for Corps, DOE Cleanup

09/06/2002 House Passes Dam Safety Bill

09/02/2002 More Embezzlement Charges Filed In Ironworkers' Case

09/02/2002 Inquest Calls For Homicide Charge

08/26/2002 Taking A Break Or Eating Lunch Can Set The Stage For Disaster

08/19/2002 Ground Zero Transit Hub Funded

08/19/2002 Benchmarking and Best Practices Bring Home the Bacon on Projects

08/12/2002 Early Days of August Prove Fatal In Three Construction Mishaps

08/12/2002 Governance Rules Touch Industry

08/02/2002 Bush Signs $28.9-Billion Bill, Funding Homeland Security, New York Rebuilding, Highways

07/31/2002 Bush Signs Bill to Combat Corporate, Accounting Crime

07/29/2002 URS Aims To Boost Stock Price And Market Share With EGG Buy

07/25/2002 Congress Boosts Aid for Homeland Security, New York; Adds $.4 Billion for Highways

07/25/2002 House, Senate Approve Financial Reform Bill

07/22/2002 House Passes Bill to Improve Probes of Building Failures

07/22/2002 Senate Passes Tough Bill on Financial Accountability

07/22/2002 Appeals Court Upholds PLA Ban

07/16/2002 Appeals Court Upholds Bush's Ban on Project Labor Agreements

07/15/2002 Megaprojects Need More Study Up Front To Avoid Cost Overruns

07/01/2002 Online Database Reveals Top Pay

06/28/2002 DOD Construction, GSA Spending Bills Advance

06/24/2002 Deaths And Near-Misses Shut Down Virginia Road Project

06/20/2002 Senate Panel Clears Ergonomics Bill for All Industries

06/20/2002 Senate Passes Bill to Provide Federal Coverage for Terrorism Claims

06/20/2002 Corps Delays Missouri River Manual Revision

06/19/2002 Corps to Propose Deauthorizing $5 Billion in Old Projects

06/17/2002 Bush Plan Draws Kudos, Caveats

06/13/2002 Senate Sinks Bill to Permanently Repeal Estate Tax

06/10/2002 Halliburton Probe Focuses On Booking Of Claims And Changes

06/07/2002 Bush Begins to Push for Homeland Security Dept

06/07/2002 Senate Clears $31.6-Billion Supplemental Spending Bill

06/07/2002 House Votes to Make Estate Tax Repeal Permanent

06/06/2002 Bush Proposes Cabinet Dept. of Homeland Security

06/03/2002 Owner Group Is Next To Draft Alternative Standard Agreement

06/03/2002 Congress Is Opening Purse Wider

05/27/2002 Architect SmithGroup Regroups After Loss Tied To Rapid Growth

05/27/2002 U.S. Labor Dept. May Curtail California Apprentice Authority

05/27/2002 Corps Battling at Home, Abroad

05/24/2002 House Approves Additional Aid for New York, Homeland Security

05/23/2002 Senate Panel Votes More Aid for Homestead Security, New York, DOD

05/20/2002 Chicago Operating Engineers Target Testing Technicians

05/16/2002 House Appropriators Clear Funds for New York, DOD, Homeland Security

05/13/2002 Bush Nominates Two to Serve on NLRB

05/13/2002 Airport's Bilingual Training Pays Off In Low Injury Rate

05/06/2002 Jury That Deliberated A Year Awards Owners $146.8 Million

05/02/2002 Corps Puts Hold on 150 U.S. Projects

04/29/2002 Williams Named Painters' Chief

04/25/2002 Corps Suspends Delaware River Dredging Project

04/02/2002 Bentley Files for $172.5 million Initial Public Offering

04/22/2002 Industry Mentoring Program Doubles In Size In A Single Year

04/22/2002 IBEW Chief Cranks Up Organizing as A Means to Keeping it Healthy

04/22/2002 Painters' Monroe Bashes Sullivan

04/19/2002 Painters' Union President Monroe Resigns

04/15/2002 Building Trades Avert A Breakup

04/08/2002 Judge Sues To Recover Part of O&K Allegedly Stolen By Nazis And Sold

04/08/2002 Judge Tacks $22 Million In Fees To Tutor-Saliba-Perini Award

04/01/2002 J.A. Jones Distancing Itself From Bankrupt German Parent

04/01/2002 AGC Contractors Sharpen Focus on Basics and New Technology

04/01/2002 Conexpo Weathers Downturn

03/25/2002 Probes Eye Union Chiefs' Trades

03/18/2002 Carpenters Take Center Stage

03/11/2002 Report Stresses Terrorism Gap

03/11/2002 Open Shop Flexes Politically and Targets 2002 Senate Races

03/04/2002 Carpenters Lay Out Conditions For Returning To Building Trades

03/04/2002 Outlook Improves For Legislation To Restrict 'Soft Money' Spending

02/18/2002 Heavily In Debt Comfort Systems Sells Key Operations To Emcor

02/18/2002 Homebuilders Are Humming And Keeping Economy Afloat

02/11/2002 Forum Pushes E&C Response

02/11/2002 Bonding Business Going For Broke?

02/11/2002 Bush Plan Slices Construction

02/04/2002 Power Job Moves Despite Enron Woe

02/04/2002 Write-Offs Under Rule Change Could Hurt Some Companies

02/04/2002 Insurance Rates On A Wild Ride

01/28/2002 IT Group Seeks Bankruptcy Move As Part Of Planned Sale To Shaw

01/28/2002 Calpine Pulls The Plug On Plants

01/07/2002 Bovis Takes Lead At WTC Cleanup, As Subway Repair Fast-Tracks

01/07/2002 Kentucky Bridge Bribe Case Involves More Than Inspectors

01/07/2002 Bush Revokes 'Blacklisting' Rule