Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example ?and puts down as little as 250 or as much as $1. In some places $10 bets are allowed. The bet taker himself, called the policy writer, is too small?and too vulnerable?to be a formal member of La Cosa Nostra. He works instead under contract as a "sharecropper...
...Though the employees may never know that they belong to a "union"?and never receive any of the benefits of being in a union ?the employer nevertheless pays the "union organizers" the workers' initiation fees and monthly dues. In another variation, the bogus union settles for "sweetheart" contracts that are grossly unfair to the workers it is supposed to represent. The difference between what a legitimate union might win for the workers and what the Mob union actually obtains is split between the mobsters and the company owners. In one such contract, writes Donald Cressey in his definitive...
...keeps on his Hidden Hills ranch in the San Fernando Valley. That enterprise helped make him one of the richest ballplayers in the game. In fact, by 1966 he was in so comfortable a financial position that he and Koufax were able to hold out for an unprecedented dual contract for $1,000,000 over three years (Drysdale eventually settled for a one-year, $115,000 contract...
...Whatever customers agree to pay, they should beware of signing blank contracts; they are apt to find that their "bargain price" has been hiked. Last week Michigan's secretary of state suspended the license of a Detroit dealer after a buyer complained that he had been victimized. The buyer signed a blank contract after agreeing orally to pay $5,505 for his auto, only to find later that the price had been filled...
...girl chooses her professional name, Siam Miami, for its exotic, Oriental and slightly Jewish flavor. But she cannot choose the track she runs on or the sordid crew of middlemen and managers who exploit her. Chief among them is Stewart Dodge, who has 50% of Siam's contract. He also has had her body, and is bent on taking over her soul. In an odd struggle, he almost destroys his singer and nearly ruins his own empire in order to revenge himself upon the one thing he lacks the power to corrupt -the girl's inner integrity...