Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with the possibility of overloading the public-school system should the parochial schools fail, Pennsylvania legislators last year invoked another principle that had already been ruled constitutional in other applications: "The commonwealth has the right to enter into contracts for the purchase of needed services" to solve public problems, even though the contract may be with a sectarian institution. Similar purchase-of-services bills are also being considered this year by the legislatures of Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Illinois...
Where is the reality in all this? Brooks has quit Barbra to become Roz's full-time manager. Roz's first album, Give Me You, is now on the market, with another album and four singles to come under her $100,000 contract. After seeing her do two songs on an Ed Sullivan show last month, the management of the Plaza Hotel's Persian Room signed her up for a three-week stint next winter. One more appearance on the Sullivan show is scheduled this season, and Broadway Producer David Black called Brooks and said he wanted...
...U.A.W. originally brought up inverted seniority during contract talks in both 1964 and 1967 but got nowhere. The auto companies, which pay most of the bill for unemployment benefits (Ford's fund totals $80 million), fear that the idea would make production cut-lacks so costly as to be self-defeating. In effect, they complain, inverted seniority could force the industry indirectly to pay two men for one job. They also worry that the scheme might destroy incentive and strip plants of experienced workers...
Edwards said "The contract [with National Computer Systems Processing Center in Minneapolis, tabulators of the responses] specifies that all tapes, records, and documents with individual identification be burned--except for one to be kept by the Carnegie Commission." He said that the Commission's tape would also be destroyed, but that he could not say when...
YPSL and YD members plan to circulate a petition demanding that "the Corporation make no contract concerning ROTC...