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Re:Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart by Zach_the_Lizard on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:28PM (#9944971)
Some Federal agencies are restricted to X number of employees by law. They hire a bunch of contractors to get around this. It's not a great system.
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Re:Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart by MichaelCrawford on Friday July 24, 2015 @04:40PM (#9945034)
My father once complained about the hot weather making his work at the naval shipyard unbearable.

But dont you have air conditioning my mother asked.

The federal regulations specify the temperature in which AC is permitted he replied. Washington DC is the coolest place that permits air conditioning.

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