Word: contract
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...typical shady deal they are believed to have detected is the "bucket trade," in which a broker slices an extra profit margin by buying a contract from a confederate at a bit more than the going price in the pit, or selling one for a bit less. For example, if a customer asks the broker to sell a soybean contract of 5,000 bushels and the market price is $7.50 per bushel, the crooked broker may sell the contract to a colleague for $7.40. That gives the colleague a discount of 10 cents per bushel, or $500, some of which...
Harvard administrators sit down with Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers leaders to embark on contract negotiations. Suddenly, Harvard announces pay increases, a new network of child care facilities and fair job classifications for all support staff. The union negotiators eagerly sign the contract, before the Harvard officials get a chance to utter, "April Fools...
...bold move, Harvard offers all 3400 support staff tenure, thus solving simultaneously the contract issues and problems of female underrepresentation on the faculty...
...final installment of his fiction trilogy, Professor of Law Derrick Bell devises a scheme to blow up the Harvard Coop when it won't invite him to hold a book-signing/wine and brie party there. Bell is awarded a $10 million contract by Paramount Pictures to turn the episode into a screenplay...
Later in the month, organizers at the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)--which now represents a support staff that is 83 percent female--said that campus safety could become a bargaining issue when the University and HUCTW sit down for their first contract negotiations. Adding safety to HUCTW's longstanding advocacy for better child care services indicates that the union's agenda will be weighted heavily toward women's issues...