Halliburton's dirty laundry.There is new evidence that Halliburton is taking U.S. taxpayers to the cleaners in Iraq. And I mean literally. Halliburton has been caught charging $100 for each 15 pound bag of laundry their workers put in their washing machines (storage) washing machine - An old-style 14-inch hard disk in a floor-standing cabinet. So called because of the size of the cabinet and the "top-loading" access to the media packs - and, of course, they were always set on "spin cycle". , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. NBC's Lisa Myers Lisa Myers is the senior investigative correspondent for NBC Nightly News. , who adds that the company has also been charging $45 a case for soda. Auditors report that Halliburton employees live in five-star hotels and buy "high-end SUVs" loaded with unnecessary options. When a Halliburton employee complained to her supervisor about the extravagance Extravagance Bovary, Emma spends money recklessly on jewelry and clothes. [Fr. Lit.: Madame Bovary, Magill I, 539–541] Cleopatra’s pearl dissolved in acid to symbolize luxury. [Rom. Hist.: Jobes, 348] , she was told, "We can be as dumb and stupid as we want in the first year of war, nobody's going to complain." Another Halliburton worker who was disturbed at not having enough to do to justify his $82,000 salary was told, "Just log in twelve hours a day and walk around and look busy." |
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