Word: contract
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...major reason for the switch also stems from the financial support Pepsi has pledged to Harvard. Specifically, in each of the five years of its contract with HDS, Pepsi has agreed to donate $25,000 to Harvard for student activities. From that amount, $10,000 will go to Undergraduate Council-social activities, $10,000 to Phillips Brooks House initiatives and $5,000 for other student groups...
Other speakers also addressed the issue of student loans. Neal deplored Republican efforts to contract, rather than expand, government-sponsored financial assistance...
...greater effect on the demand-side of the economy than on the supply-side. In other words, Forbes' massive tax cut would substantially increase aggregate demand while only marginally increasing aggregate supply. The result, of course, is inflation. This higher inflation would then require the Federal Reserve to contract the money supply by raising interest rates which would also lower investment and hence long-term economic growth...
...just blue-collar employees who are expected to check their freedom of speech at the company door. In mid-December, Boston physician David Himmelstein was fired for going public about the gag clause in his employer's contract with doctors, forbidding them to "make any communication which undermines or could undermine the confidence...of the public in U.S. Healthcare..." or even revealing that this clause is in their contract...
Most workers, especially in the private sector, have no such protections. Unless their contract says otherwise, they can be fired "for any reason or no reason"--except when the firing can be shown to be discriminatory on the basis of race, sex or religion. In addition, a few forms of "speech," such as displaying a union logo, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, and the courts may decide this makes Caterpillar's crackdown illegal. But the general assumption is, any expansion of workers' rights would infringe on the apparently far more precious right of the employer to fire...