Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last year. His ideas go well beyond making the numbers balance. Until now the U.S. government's relationship with the troubled District of Columbia had been a squabble over how large the federal subsidy should be. Last month Raines unveiled a bailout plan that would totally transform the contract between the two, opening a debate that all sides agree was long overdue...
...what might his share be? Taborsky asked. "Nothing," said Carnahan, explaining that under terms of the Florida Progress contract, the process he had developed belonged to the company. But Carnahan proposed a consolation prize. If Taborsky would voluntarily turn the rights of his discovery over to Florida Progress, the company would offer him a staff...
...Organization, 3% of those surveyed replied no. That response, whether one agrees with it or not, might be deemed something of an act of courage. During the cold war, the words communist and atheist became almost interchangeable; even today some feel comfortable writing the latter out of the civic contract. South Carolina, one of a handful of states whose constitutions require belief as a condition for holding public office (a dead letter in the others), is currently defending itself at the appeals-court level after losing a suit brought by an atheist claiming his views cost...
...that people had to be famous for a reasonably long time before anyone would want to read a book by them. But in the go-go '90s, the period between appearing on TV and getting a fat book deal is evanescing. Last week DREW CAREY signed a contract with Hyperion publishers allegedly worth seven figures. (It's probably just coincidence that Disney owns both Hyperion and ABC, which airs Carey's 1 1/2-year-old sitcom.) JENNY MCCARTHY had been on MTV for just two years when her book was announced. JON STEWART's talk show was canceled, yet he too will...
Employees who did not ratify the contract may continue in their present positions but their rate of pay increase will be slowed, according to the letter...