21.   Military contractors have had a hard enough time moving from making widgets for tanks to making widgets for trucks, let alone to making movies.

22.   Military contractors also have their eyes on civil and commercial markets.

23.   Most employees will be reassigned, the company said, and the contractors involved will have the chance to work on other projects.

24.   Most of the cost is in labor, and my contractor is having a hard time maintaining help.

25.   MTA contractors have better than national averages on lost-time injuries, but far worse recordable injury rates.

26.   Not only do welfare recipients, public-broadcasting enthusiasts and defense contractors have a stake in the budget debate in Washington.

27.   Officials at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department said any private contractor would have to use state employees for the screening of applicants for food stamps and Medicaid.

28.   STINGINESS The contractor has to be sure of getting his money if he completes the work satisfactorily.

29.   The audit is especially critical of the preference some contractors have to buy refundable airline tickets, which are the most expensive.

30.   The contractors have billions of dollars worth of other business before Congress.