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Benicia, Calif.-Based Environmental Consulting Firm Sets Global Goals.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003
By David Whelan, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 6--On March 8, two weeks before the United States invaded Ira..., Nick Patz sat down at his computer and banged out an e-mail to Riley Bechtel, the billionaire boss of the fourth-generation family-owned construction conglomerate.
"I suspect that you will probably help restore Ira... following the coming war," wrote Patz. "My company Ceres Associates is a California-based environmental consulting firm. We could be of great assistance to you." Patz went on to describe how Ceres runs a waste-management business in United Arab Emirates, and offered to help Bechtel with similar work in Ira....
A few hours later, Riley Bechtel wrote back; he...
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