Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Khashoggi left Chico after only three semesters; wheeling and dealing would provide the rest of his education. In 1956 Khashoggi garnered a contract to supply trucks for the Saudi army. The pattern was set: the deal, the commission, the party, more contacts and contracts. By 1962 Khashoggi was the sales agent in Saudi Arabia for Chrysler, Fiat, Westland Helicopters Ltd. and Rolls-Royce. "One association," he says, "led to another, one business to another." For Western companies, Khashoggi was the man to know in Saudi Arabia...
Manhattan Businessman Richard Perl, 29, has a morning ritual. After dressing, he drops a small crystal into his pocket to enhance his concentration and aid + him in contract negotiations during his workday. Andrea Cagan, 38, a Los Angeles physical therapist, follows an evening routine: she slips a sliver of rose quartz under her pillow to help her sleep peacefully...
...court battle over Baby M. will answer only a part of that question. In deciding the case, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Harvey Sorkow becomes the first judge in the U.S. asked to enforce a surrogate agreement. He could treat the case mainly as a contract dispute, rule that the contract is valid and award the child to the Sterns. Or he could opt to treat it basically as a custody battle; then the best interests of the child would be the guiding principle. Custody is often awarded to mothers, but since Baby M. has been living with the Sterns...
...wanted to become a surrogate mother to help a childless couple. She claimed to want no more children of her own. After she met the Sterns for the first time at a New Jersey restaurant, the three became friends, trading phone calls back and forth. Whitehead signed a contract, promising among other things that she would not "form or attempt to form a parent-child relationship" with the resulting infant. The Sterns promised to pay her $10,000, plus medical expenses. They paid the center $10,000. But during delivery, Whitehead told the court last week, she decided she could...
...past few months, Teamsters Local 901 and the hotel, which is owned by Hotel Systems International, of Santa Monica, Calif., had been holding negotiations for a new contract. The union, which represents 290 of the hotel's 450 employees, had threatened to strike at midnight on Dec. 31 if its demands were not met. On the afternoon of the last day of the year, 200 or so union members met in the Dupont Plaza's ballroom for more than an hour and voted to allow their leaders to call a strike. "The next we know," claimed Attorney Rudy Torruella...