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still_one

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1. The OP should say "Government Contractors". Otherwise it is misleading. It doesn't

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2018, 11:17 AM

Dec 2018

apply to private contractors

This is NOT being critical of the OP, but of CNN and other news sources that are not being forthright in what it says.

While there are arguments on both sides of this, the headline from CNN really should have been more accurate

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The OP should say "Government Contractors". Otherwise it is misleading. It doesn't still_one Dec 2018 #1

You're right. It's in the first sentence of the text too. Done. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2018 #2

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