Word: contract
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Robert Mondavi Winery, based in Oakville, Calif., is the first U.S. winemaker to offer such contracts on a nationwide basis. An investor who buys a $240 contract on a case of 1985 or 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve is betting that the wines will increase in value by 1989. Because the contracts will bring in cash two years before the wines are usually sold, about 30 California vintners, including such names as Iron Horse and Diamond Creek, are following Mondavi's lead...
...February 1986 Owen made two more trips to Costa Rica. Owen by then had a $50,000 contract from the State Department to help in the delivery of "humanitarian" aid to the contras, which was permitted at the time. But he testified that on one trip he also helped deliver "lethal equipment" to the rebels, which was still banned...
...lack of trying. The probe dates back to 1979, when a federal grand jury began hearings into allegations of rip-offs in the $1.8 billion contract for subs by General Dynamics and its Electric Boat division. After two years the jury disbanded. In 1984 investigations revived when P. Takis Veliotis, the boat division's former general manager, who had fled to Greece to avoid prosecution for an unrelated kickback scheme, said he had tape-recorded conversations with Chairman Lewis and Vice President Gorden MacDonald, both since retired. The tapes purportedly showed an agreement to provide false data to the Government...
Steiner laughed as the woman sang, "We turn toMr. Steiner knowing he can help use, looking forsome answers but still no contract. We're stillchasing criminals though we have no contract...
Steiner said yesterday that the University willtry to work out a contract with the union thissummer...