City File: Contract woes
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'All the contractors are now taking on contracts at a loss, based on the assumption that input prices will continue to fall. But the building material suppliers are going to reduce capacity and then they'll be able to hold prices,' - a state of affairs guaranteed to prolong the misery for the contractors well into the mid-1990s.
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