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METCALF & EDDY v. PUERTO RICO AQUEDUCT & SEWER

No. 91-1602.

945 F.2d 10 (1991)

METCALF & EDDY, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. PUERTO RICO AQUEDUCT AND SEWER AUTHORITY, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 25, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Brady with whom Paige E. Reffe, Perry M. Rosen, Cutler & Stanfield, Washington, D.C., Arturo Trias, Hector Melendez Cano, and Trias, Acevedo & Otero, Hato Rey, P.R., were on brief for defendant, appellant.

Peter W. Sipkins with whom Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, Minn., Jay A. Garcia-Gregory, and Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, San Juan, P.R., were on brief for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, and ALDRICH and SELYA, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

We recently acknowledged that "words can be `chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.'" Hanover Ins. Co. v. United States, 880 F.2d 1503, 1504 (1st Cir.1989) (quoting Commissioner v. National Carbide Co., 167 F.2d 304, 306 (2d Cir.1948) (L. Hand, J.)), cert. denied, 493 U.S. 1023, 110 S.Ct. 726, 107 L.Ed.2d 745 (1990). As the appeal before...

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