<HTML>In a message dated 4/17/2003 6:43:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dhenwood@panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The initial $34.6 million contract, which may be extended to the repair of hospitals, schools and other government buildings, could rise to as much as $680 million over 18 months, USAID said. </BLOCKQUOTE> ...with a little help from its (expansive and highly well-connected set of) friends. Somewhere George Schultz is laughing to himself, or maybe out loud. Nomi Nomi</HTML>