Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delivering the Orchard Hills school over to what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference...
...Ames Daily Tribune has rightly filed a lawsuit against the Iowa State Daily on, the grounds that the student Daily, by soliciting advertising that would otherwise contract with the Tribune, is unfairly competing with private business. We agree that as the situation stands, the Daily should be considered part of the state government and should therefore be required to obey anti-competition laws and other protections for private business. But the student newspaper can defend itself by incorporating, thereby resolving the Tribune's accusations and providing a permanent, independent and credible foundation for student voice at Iowa State University...
...deeply low periods in the past few years--seeing my closest friend [photographer] Robert Mapplethorpe unfortunately contract AIDS in the prime of his life. He did everything he possibly could to beat his card. But he worked right to the end, and whenever I feel like life got a little tough on me, I always zero in on him or others who cherished their life force and fought to keep it. They did die young, and I find it my duty either to continue to tell people about them or to honor them in my work. People who do good...
...framework for the new social contract lies in a broader coalition," she said...
...need a new social contract," Skocpol said. "We must bridge the division between blacks and whites that has bedeviled the Democratic Party for the past fifty years...