41.   But he may ask the panel to clarify its intent on McClellan AFB to insure that private contractors could assume the work there.

42.   But in others, private contractors are required.

43.   But in the interim, when the government itself hires the private contractors, it will try hard for better performance, perhaps by looking elsewhere.

44.   But since World War II, private contractors have produced most major new weapons systems.

45.   But several city officials involved in the deal said that the private contractor had been dawdling in completing the paperwork and in confronting the unions about planned staff cutbacks.

46.   By farming out power plant construction to private contractors, the government of President Fidel Ramos solved the power crisis within a year.

47.   By minimizing the role of lawgiver and expanding the role as private contractor, the plurality has thus casually, but improperly, reworked the sovereign acts doctrine.

48.   Cities like Indianapolis and Milwaukee and Phoenix have invented whole new ways of performing city services, using fewer workers or private contractors.

49.   Cities such as Atlanta and Milwaukee have written into their contracts that the private contractor must hire every city employee in the area to be privatized.

50.   Cleanup work, performed by the pipeline company and its private contractors, is nearly complete.