Word: contract
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Epps said that "on or near" Sept. I the University will "clarify its position" on PBHA. Epps would not say whether the deadline could be extended, but said he opposed the board's decision to postpone contract renewal with the College...
WASHINGTON: Are you comfortable with doctors getting paid to stamp their endorsement on a thermometer? The American Medical Association, the nation's largest organization of doctors, and Sunbeam Corp. signed an exclusive five-year contract to put the AMA seal on Sunbeam products such as blood-pressure monitors and heating pads. In turn, the AMA gets a cut of the action...
...considering yesterday's attempt by UPS to break the strike deadlock with a soundbite-friendly rallying cry for company democracy: "Let our people vote." Rather than the teamsters' council of elders, said the company, the union rank-and-file should have the last say on whether the company's contract offer sinks or swims. Today's threat will have workers wondering how genuine that offer...
...folk song, the chanting of monks and the words of Shakespeare are woven into a haunting musical tapestry. Since then Tan has completed his first Hollywood assignment (a hard-edged, jazz-tinged score for Denzel Washington's next movie, Fallen, due later this year) and signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. Slated for release in October is Marco Polo: An Opera Within an Opera, a work whose U.S. premiere, to be given the following month by the New York City Opera, is already causing a stir in the music business. Paul Kellogg, City Opera's general and artistic...
ATLANTA: As shippers across the country scrambled to find an alternative package delivery system, 185,000 United Parcel Service Teamsters walked off the job at on minute after midnight Monday morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise...