Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony to the selfish mean-spiritedness of those unfortunately entrusted with the Harvard History Department that they have denied students the benefit of his presence even as a junior professor by refusing to renew his contract. Damon Silvers '86 Felicia Kornbluh...
...contract we have with the city is basically managing the houses," said Erick Schenkel, pastor of the Church of the Covenant. "There were facilitators there daily, until recently, to help them make the adjustment from living on the street to living in a community...
...chapter titled "Can You Catch AIDS from a Toilet Seat?" They accurately report that the risk of infection from a source other than sex, contaminated needles, blood or the womb is practically nil. But they proceed to describe in vivid detail how it might be "theoretically possible" to contract AIDS from, among other things, contact lenses, a salad in a restaurant or instruments in a doctor's office. The farfetched examples are so memorable that the caveats are quickly forgotten. Worse, the therapists call for mandatory AIDS tests of all pregnant women, hospital patients between the ages...
Sicarios, paid killers, will fulfill a contract on someone's life for as little as a few hundred dollars. The cartel uses sicarios frequently, though many murders have no apparent perpetrator or motive. Early last month, for instance, Jorge Antonio Restrepo Monslave, 29, a shop assistant with no known drug connections, was shot in the head outside his home by two attackers who took nothing from him. His murder was one of a dozen that day, none of which received more than a token investigation by police...
...Yale contract improved pensions by approximately 10 percent, according to Richard Silva, Yale director of benefits and records. The contract assured that pension benefits would be calculated independent of social security benefits...