Word: contract
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...Some localities have already realized this. In New Jersey, Commissioner of Education Saul Cooperman has sought to create teacher incentives, including bonuses for success in inner-city schools and grants for top teachers to spend in classrooms as they wish. Last fall Rochester teachers signed an innovative three-year contract granting greater classroom freedom and salaries that start at $29,000 and rise to $70,000 for stars. In return, the teachers agreed to be held accountable for student performance...
...when President Reagan announced that he would allow Britain to sell sensitive nuclear-submarine technology to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government. Under a 1958 treaty, the subs cannot be sold without U.S. permission. The Canadians are also considering a French bid for the submarine contract. The nuclear subs' primary role would be to strengthen the Canadian contribution to NATO's North American defense. They would also put some muscle into Canada's assertion of sovereignty over the main routes through its vast Arctic waters...
...sensitive and dedicated. There are few hints that ethical compromises, or even a healthy professional detachment, might be part of the terrain. When Abby Perkins (Michele Greene), one of the firm's young associates, tried last fall to get a pair of feuding former business partners to settle their contract dispute out of court, there was a hint (rare on L.A. Law) that she might not be pulling her weight at the firm. The doubts, however, were short-lived: her clients made up, praised her effusively in front of the boss -- and got her a big raise to boot...
...said, "As a player, I don't have an opinion. As a son, I'll keep my opinions to myself." Baltimoreans are especially worried about Cal Jr., the American League's Most Valuable Player of 1983, who went 0 for 29 at one stretch in the Orioles' slump. His contract is up this season, and they fear he will abandon the town. In fact, they have deeper fears than that...
...ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government. Yet, says Jean Bilien, head of the partnership's marketing company, "for nearly five years we had an engine but no buyer." The partners won their first contract just when the French government was on the verge of withdrawing its support...