The power brokers homing in on $100 billion worth of postwar reconstruction contracts are not.

French companies were excluded from reconstruction contracts in Iraq.

This move allowed Canadian companies to bid on reconstruction contracts.

Then a building company charged that the $60 million reconstruction contract did not go to the lowest qualified bidder.

Will Kuwait continue the boycott and prevent companies doing business with Israel from getting reconstruction contracts?

Now the time is judged right and ripe, Anyone for reconstruction contracts?

Some also suggested that India could get a lucrative slice of postwar reconstruction contracts.

The reconstruction contract the city government signed promised to return residents to their units in two years.

There is still no word on what company will win the grand prize in the bidding: a $600 million reconstruction contract.

Since the meeting last week, scores of other companies have registered interest in reconstruction contracts, government officials said, but they have received no guarantees.