Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admirals also suspect that they have been victimized by the practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...some months, Harvard and the union have been trying to work out more definite procedures for the training and promotion of Harvard's maintenance workers. Yesterday, both sides said some progress had been made in the negotiations, and that the contract which will replace the one expiring in December may contain new provisions on these issue...
...negotiations do not merely cover the so-called "painters' helpers." No such category exists under the contract; the "painters' helpers" are hired under the category of "helpers." which also includes workers in other crafts. The negotiations concern all "helpers" and their advancement to "mechanics," the category for journeymen in painting and other crafts...
...Biggest Contract. In his inimitable language, Dylan also told how he almost wrote a philosophical memoir of sorts called Tarantula: "It begins with when I suddenly began to sell quite a few records . . . and I was doing interviews before and after concerts, and reporters would say things like 'What else do you write?' And I would say, 'Well, I don't write much of anything else.' And they would say, 'Oh, come on. You must write other things. Tell us something else. Do you write books?' And I'd say, 'Sure...
...printed. Finally, he took his research and a typewriter along on a European tour. "I was going to rewrite it all," he explains. "But still, it wasn't any book; it was just to satisfy the publishers who wanted to print something that we had a contract for. Follow me? So eventually I had my motorcycle accident and that just got me out of the whole thing, 'cause I didn't care anymore. As it stands now, I could write a book. But I'm gonna write it first, and then give it to them...