Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accused of using minority status to land a $1.3 million contract with the California energy commissiona in 1989, before the state law requiring a 15% set-aside for minority contractors took effect. Connerly only disclosed his race when required. "I felt that it could be damaging to my business to become identified as a minority firm," he says. "You get pigeonholed, and people begin to think that you only got the business because you are a minority...
Against that backdrop of intimidation, members of the victorious Megret team began to turn the city into a laboratory for their ideas. They first had to sop up a $10 million budget deficit. The main savings came from slashing subsidies to local cultural and sports associations and firing 147 contract employees, most of whom worked with the immigrant community. Choosing enforcement over crime prevention, they nearly doubled the local police force from 36 to 60 officers. "The police have a new attitude," says Deputy Mayor Hubert Fayard. "Before, they weren't respected. Now they will seek contact. If they...
...pretty good example he set the other night. The game wasn't about Nike or Wheaties or Gatorade--though the Bulls' physician did make a point of crediting the energy drink for restoring Michael afterward. It was about the team, a team that may in fact dissolve over contract hassles in the off-season. It was about sport, the essence of which Rice captured in his oft-quoted lines: "For when the one Great Scorer comes to write against your name,/He marks--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game...
...Prodigy's sound has since grown edgier, drawing from commercially successful rock and hard-core hip-hop. Last year the major music labels fought a bidding war to sign the band. Madonna's Maverick won with a contract worth a reported $5 million. When, earlier this year, MTV announced its intention to program more electronica and started a show, Amp, to promote the genre, the Prodigy, thanks to its anthemic song, Firestarter, became the techno band of the moment...
...Saying that Detroit Newspapers Inc. used unfair labor practices, a federal judge today ordered the company to reinstate striking workers to their former positions. The decision, handed down by Judge Thomas Wilks, is a major victory for the six union locals, which went on strike July 13, 1995 over contract issues. If the ruling stands up to future challenges, the company will be forced to reinstate all "unfair labor practice strikers" and displace any replacement workers hired since the initial walkout. Approximately 2,500 workers participated in the strike and about 1,200 replacement workers took their place soon afterward...