Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...registered" player in The Netherlands, Okker could opt for either expenses or prize money. The U.S. has no such classification, which is why Ashe may well turn pro when he gets out of the Army next February; there are rumors that he already has been offered a $100,000 contract. In the meantime, he is looking ahead to December's Davis Cup Challenge Round in Australia, when he hopes to help take back the cup that the U.S. has not won since 1963. "It's nice to hear the announcer say 'Point-Ashe,' " he admits...
...increases of roughly 20% that airline pilots have recently been winning. Air-traffic delays, brought on in large measure by the proliferation of scheduled flights, have cost the airlines some $90 million so far this year. But new aircraft purchases are far and away the most expensive item. Under contract, U.S. airlines will take delivery of 451 new jet planes this year, at a cost of $2.6 billion. In all, they have commitments or options to buy $7.6 billion worth of jets...
...contract approved Thursday incorporated most of the demands. It is a two-year contract, but the raise is still 15 cents per year. Union officials point out that the year of the small (10 cent) raise was the one dropped. The University also agreed to longer vacations and will pay for any Blue Cross-Blue Shield cost increases, but it rejected night differential...
...wild meeting from which the press was excluded, the employees voted 105 to 48 in favor of the contract. Many of the dissidents were night janitors...
...contract will be retroactive to July 1, when the old one expired. Attorney Richard Coleman, cheif union negotiator, called it "the best contract we've ever...