Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davis: The most important thing is that voodoo is not an aberrant cult. It's only the American culture that has portrayed it in this way. When the U.S. Marine Corps occupied Haiti, everyone above the rank of sergeant got a book contract, and those books got names like Cannibal Cousins, Voodoo Fire in Haiti, Puritan In Voodoo Land. And they were full of zombies crawling out of the grave attacking people, and voodoo dolls and pins that don't even exist. This led to Hollywood movies like I Walked with A Zombie and Zombies on Broadway. I think what...
...liberty to discuss the details ofour contract," said a chuckling Shecter, "butwe're going to make more money than most peoplewould wish to make in seven thousand lifetimes."Shecter described the contract with Sire asunusual: "we're a new group and Sire is a bigrecord company...
Other shuttle engineers have expressed similar concerns. A former Rockwell quality-assurance engineer says that an audit he conducted of Rockwell's shuttle hardware and software last July revealed that only 12% met NASA's contract specifications. The day after submitting his report, he contends, his supervisor told him that "we had to change the figure to 96% or better." He refused. Five weeks later he was suspended and then later fired...
...happened, the sports authorities in Communist Hungary were delighted to discuss trading a winning player for hard currency. After weeks of bargaining, the two sides cut a deal. Last fall Hungary's top star, Lajos Detari, 24, began playing in West Germany on a three-year contract worth $2 million...
...some performers, a contract in the West can never be more than a dream. Because the Communist Party exercises indirect control over cultural life in the bloc countries, even mild expressions of political dissent can be enough to deny sports stars as well as rock singers a passport. By the same token, mediocre talents boasting party membership often jump to the front of the line for jobs in the West. Explains a young Czechoslovak tennis player in Prague: "Here sports and culture are all part of politics...