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DPW

abbr.
Department of Public Works
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DPW

(in Britain, formerly) abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Department of Public Works
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D.P.W.

Department of Public Works.
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Steve Nielsen, DPW deputy director and chief engineer, says, "This collaborative process brings many advantages to the city including a working relationship with the university that provides for the streamlining of new product investigations and the utilization of the vast contact points the university brings to the table.
This selection represents the latest renewal of the PinnacleOne--Connecticut DPW relationship, spanning twelve consecutive years since 1994.
These are issues that all the worriers over DPW management of American ports ought also to be raising.
What P&O is selling to DPW is a company that operates port facilities under long-term contracts with port authorities.
Eller filed a last-minute petition on Friday night asking the court not to approve the pounds 3.9bn deal with DPW, which is controlled by the ruling Maktoum family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Whether a DPW should be a registered PE has been a subject of debate for a long time.
The legislature's attempt to impose DPW's fee-for-service default rate as the rate non-plan providers must accept for emergency services as an effort by the legislature to suspend the Act's requirement that providers be paid "all reasonably necessary costs" associated with emergency services.
There are unlikely to be any job losses and the P&O pension fund, which has a deficit of pounds 200 million, will be protected as DPW have agreed to a one-off cash injection of pounds 125million, followed by further payments over the next five years.
DPW's offer was said to be worth 460p a share - well above the 300p seen at the end of October before the company confirmed it had received an approach, and saw shares soar
"The green areas are for people to look at, not necessarily to lay on," said the DPW's Jorge Alfaro.
Department of Public Works (DPW) to build seven new prison school buildings by October 1985.
Defense/aerospace products company DPW Holdings Inc (NYSE American:DPW) on Tuesday announced its plans to sell shares of its common stock for aggregate gross proceeds of up to USD5.5m under 'at-the-market' equity offering programme.