Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from tapping into the results of theThesaurus project Harvard will do some condensingof its own. Crane is in now in the process ofnegotiating for a $500,000 contract to beginproducing compact discs which would contain afifth of all the pre 600 A.D. Greek material...
Continually they would awaken me to do these tests, and continually it was determined that I should reduce my salt intake if I wished to avoid heart trouble in about 30 years. My arm must have forecast the arrival of these tests, because it soon began to contract itself in anticipation...
Members of the SPA said that they have talked with managers of music groups interested in performing at an anti-apartheid benefit, but they refused to say which bands and artists they are negotiating with or how close they are to a contract...
...this wheeling and dealing, of course, had effects beyond the fortunes of one executive and his company. Engineers at McDonnell-Douglas, one of Rockwell's competitors for the orbiter contract, foresaw the precise cause of the Challenger explosion--14 years before it occurred--and devised a solution for it. But McDonnell-Douglas couldn't play the game of "government contract hardball" as well as Rockwell and didn't play a major role in the program...
...January, McDonnell Douglas hitched a ride into the space race when the Air Force awarded it a $734 million contract. The firm will build a fleet of up to 20 unmanned rockets by 1991 to launch military satellites. While that work is under way, it will be relatively cheap for McDonnell Douglas to build additional rockets to haul commercial payloads...