Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After four months of contract talks, which were preceded by six months of negotiations about how to have the contract talks, Harvard's maintenance workers will vote Thursday on a new University contract...
Neither management nor labor would comment specifically on the contract. "This is the union's own business and it might jeopardize the voting results for us to say anything right now," said John Butler, assistant director of Personnel and Harvard's chief negotiator. "But maybe the union would talk because they need the publicity. They often have a hard time getting their people to attend meetings," he added...
Early this month, Harvard announced that all contractors vying for the Mather project had submitted construction bids substantially higher than the University estimate of $8 million. Before the contract could be signed and construction begun, the University had to find ways to reduce costs. University planners feared that the delay would prevent completion of the building by September 1969 as planned...
University officials, in consultation with Mather's architect, Jean-Paul Carlhian, and the Turner Construction Company, the firm submitting the lowest original bid, worked out a series of technical modifications worth a half-million dollars in construction savings. On November 7, the University agreed to contract with Turner, and excavation began shortly after. Occupancy, Wiggins said, is still scheduled for September...
...merely because of the historical tradition of whether an agency gives grants or contracts--the only real difference being that contracts have no cost-sharing stipulations whereas grants do--scientists arbitrarily have to file effort reports. A man with a contract from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, for instance, is not involved with effort-reporting while a man with a NSF grant, with possibly very similar conditions...