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Word: contract (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cannes Film Festival, Minimogul Menahem Golan sat down with Jean- Luc Godard and, on a table napkin, jotted down a movie contract. Cinema's old enfant terrible (Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary) would write and direct a modern King Lear. Norman Mailer would play the mad monarch, Woody Allen the fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mad Monarch As Gang Lord | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

Freshman football is also scheduled differently than upperclass intramurals. Because of the large numbers of touch football forfeits in the past, Light changed the way games are scheduled. Instead of a regular schedule, teams now "contract" for a game on a week-by-week basis. Barnard says, "There has been less forfeiting and still pretty good participation...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Proctor Light Renews Spirit in Freshman Dorm Sports | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

...everyone appreciates the contract system. "It would be nice to have football regularly," says Craig Katz '91, a Canaday C intramural representative. "Unless it's regularly scheduled and people have to be there, people sometimes wimp...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Proctor Light Renews Spirit in Freshman Dorm Sports | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

Fallon McElligott issued apologies to all concerned, but the gesture was too late. One of its biggest accounts, the U S WEST Bell telephone company, now says it will not renew its contract with the agency, valued as high as $10 million annually. The reason: the BITCH, BITCH, BITCH affair. Said a satisfied Schleuning: "This is Fallon McElligott's worst possible nightmare come true. I couldn't have set this one up if I had tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Kiss That Job Goodbye | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...games are wildly disparate. In the stock market, the margin requirement -- the percentage of down payment that an investor must make to buy shares on credit -- is 50%. In Chicago, investors can buy into the futures market with as little as 12% of the value of the contract purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild Bears On the Loose | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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