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Company Gets Pentagon Contract Despite Death Inquiries

nytimes.com
Feb. 7, 2009
A contractor has been awarded a $35 million contract involving electrical work even though it is under investigation in the electrocution deaths of American soldiers in Iraq.
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch