Word: contract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encourage economic growth, King said, his administration has established a "social contract" with 89 high technology firms to create a healthier business climate in the state...
...submarines costing $545 million, and several smaller projects. In Britain, Chrysler U.K. Ltd. last week laid off 1,500 workers at its Coventry and Birmingham plants because of chaos in Iran's ports. The disruptions have prevented the company from shipping auto-assembly kits under a long-term contract that was signed in 1970 with an Iranian company and is worth some $200 million annually to the ailing automaker...
...will be late spring before this year's price trend will be discernible. Thus the inflation outlook will still be cloudy when the pacesetting Teamsters contract negotiations begin in earnest in March. If the truckers breach the 7% limit, other unions can be expected to follow. If that happens, the concern about controls reflected in last week's leap in wholesale prices may spread much farther...
...clear rules: be patient, be friendly, and above all be prepared. "For a negotiation that would take six months some place else, anticipate that it will take at least two months longer in China," advises Eric Kalkhurst, North Asia sales director for Fluor Corp., which has won a fat contract to develop a Chinese copper mine. And that is after a delegation visits Peking; wangling an invitation to go there often takes much longer. Some deals signed last fall were the fruit of contacts that were made as early...
...ship's clock) seems to him to move at only half the rate that it would on earth. The mass of the ship and everything on it appear to dou ble relative to what their mass was on earth, while all dimensions in the direction of travel seem to contract to half their earth lengths. Strangely enough, a ship board observer notices no changes aboard his craft. He thinks that it is time back on earth that is slowing, and that the masses and lengths there are changing...