1984
ERG is founded in Cambridge, MA.

1988
Company wins 2 significant contracts to provide environmental, communications, and economics support to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1989
IT/software applications group is formed.

1990
Growth to 60 employees.

1992
Environmental and occupational health services group is formed. ERG moves to new corporate headquarters in Lexington, MA.

1994
Largest single award contract awarded in company's history to date ($3+ million/year).

1995
Growth to 100 employees.

1996
Company acquires divisions of Radian International; opens ERG Engineering Division in Chantilly, VA, and RTP, NC, including a laboratory specializing in environmental measurements.

Growth to 250 employees.

1997
First corporate outsourcing partnership initiated with Trammell Crow Company to provide sales and marketing support to regional, national, and international offices.

1998
ERG Engineering Division wins first U.S. Navy contract ($1.9 million/year).

1999
Corporate outsourcing services expand to other clients, including American Express, Baxter Healthcare, and Harvard University.

2000
Austin, TX, office opens, specializing in projects related to automotive engineering and emissions. Boston office opens to support communications projects. Chicago office opens to support company development and marketing efforts.

2001
Data center in Nashua, NH, opens. Sacramento, CA, office opens, specializing in environmental air quality projects.

2002
Harrisburg, PA, office opens, specializing in natural resources management projects; Atlanta, GA, office opens to better serve our public health clients.

Largest contract awarded in company’s history (10 years/$39.4 million).

2003
Growth to 350 professionals.
ERG celebrates 19 years of profitability.

This is a true essay written by a Nepali candidate at the Lok Seva Exams (govt. employment exams). The candidate has written an essay on the Nepali cow:

Nepali Cow :
HE IS THE COW. "The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [ but will do so when he is got child.]
He is same like-God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilized for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement. [ horses don’t have any such attachment What can it do?
Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, waterman and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species.
Also his other motion.. [gober] is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes [like Pizza] , in hand , and drying in the sun. Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chew with his teeth whom are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass.

His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, specially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side.
This is done to frighten away the flies which alight on his cohesive body hereupon he gives hit with it. The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts . His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow.......

We are informed that the candidate passed the exam. and is now a govt. officer, is Kathmandu in somewhere,. sorry...... somewhere in Kathmandu.

and the writer forgets to write

"and when the cows is die, man in america pack cow in plastic and sell. a dead cow is calls beef and is very tasty. but i doesnt eat beefs. i am an hindu. my friend eat beef. i eat bhaisi ko momo, bhaisi is also a fat cow. but it is black."

Suraj.

there is nothing wrong with that essay. i like it. besides, the people who can write relatively better essays on cows and other animals are alllll in the US, europe and elsewhere.

this is a true line tha tI am writing down. Long time ago when I was in thrid grade one of my classmates wrote this line in our hindi subject. The teacher was very impressed by his raym and she just lugh at these line and told I will do the paap by giving you some numbers ( marks) in this eassy.


गाए हमारी माता है, हमको कुछ नही आता है । बैल हमारा बाप है, कम नम्बर देना पाप है ।

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