Word: contract
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Repeal of the Prevailing Wage Law would take away the Commissioner of Labor's power to set wage rates for public work. Instead, the state would contract out its projects to the lowest--or best--bidder and therefore save money...
...virus special was how it spread. Brandow, who collaborated with Davidson in creating it, inserted the virus into game disks that were distributed at meetings of a Montreal Macintosh users group. A speaker at one meeting was a Chicago software executive named Marc Canter, whose company was doing some contract work for Aldus Corp., a Seattle-based software publisher. Canter innocently picked up a copy of the infected disk, tried it out on his office computer, and then proceeded, on the same machine, to review a piece of software being prepared for shipment to Aldus. Unaware that he had thereby...
...become free agents after the 1985 and 1986 seasons. In lay terms, eligible players were allowed to offer their services to the highest bidder, except that few bids were forthcoming save from the clubs for which they were already playing. These judgments could figure explosively when the contract between the clubs and the Major League Players Association expires after the 1989 season. Also up for grabs next year are potentially troublesome extensions or renewals of network-television contracts. It is easy to dream up a nightmare for the spring of 1990: no games are being broadcast nationwide, but that hardly...
...weeks CTA representatives and the school department have met with a mediator to break the eight-month-long deadlock in contract negotiations, city officials said. The Cambridge teachers' contract officially ran out August 31, and, according to city officials, they agreed to work under the old contract until a new one is approved...
Giroux said many changes, unrelated to the current contract talks, took place during the summer. Both Superintendent Robert J. Peterkin and the assistant superintendent Dr. Barbara Marshall, took more prestigious jobs in the Milwaukee school system. In addition, the principal of one of the elementary schools accepted a job as head of Harvard's Principals program...