Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal officials suspend a $14 million contract with the Harvard Institute for International Development after government inspectors find possible improprieties in the administration of projects in Russia. Accusations focus on Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer, who allegedly "abused the trust of the United States government by using personal relationships...for private gain," according to federal officials...
...white female expertly playing the bottleneck guitar, Raitt was a rare bird who was quickly noticed. By 1971, when her classmates were entering their senior year, she had signed a contract with Warner Brothers...
...make a difference to the Cable News Network. A few days after the ceremony, the New York Times reported that CNN had offered Brokaw, 57, a $7 million-a-year gig. That's $3 million or $4 million more than the anchor is making now, and Brokaw's NBC contract expires Aug. 30. But outlandish sums often crop up in print at negotiation time. It's easy to make an offer but hard to make a deal...
...into trouble even before she got the job, when word leaked out that in trying to extricate herself from her contract at NBC, she had raised allegations of sexual harassment against West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer. (Ohlmeyer denies the charges; Tarses has refused to comment on them.) Since joining ABC last June, she has weathered an almost nonstop run of bad-ratings news. ABC dropped even further into third place this past season, losing a startling 13% of its audience in the space of just a year. (Over the same period, the four broadcast networks collectively lost 6% of their...
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