Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't realize I had to meet with an admissions officer. At other schools, giving you school admission is just a formality," he says. "At Tulane, they just give you a signing contract for the team and coaches take care of admissions. I didn't even have to fill out an application there...
...good news for embattled boxing promoter Don King is that prosecutors will not appeal a mistrial ruling in his insurance fraud case. The bad news? Federal prosecutors immediately pushed for a retrial. A mistrial was declared Thursday when jurors remained deadlocked over whether King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London if a 1991 fight was canceled. The defense maintains that King, who has survived three grand jury probes and was aquitted of tax evasion in 1985, was the innocent victim of his accountant, the implausibly named Joseph Maffia. King's defense contends that Maffia...
Johnnie Cochran is claiming victory in another contest with Marcia Clark, this time over who got the more lucrative book deal. Just days after Clark received a reported $4.2 million advance for her account of the Simpson trial, Cochran struck back with what is rumored to be a heftier contract for "My Journey to Justice: The Autobiography of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr." The Simpson trial has also been a windfall for a number of other would-be authors, including Christopher Darden ($1.7 million) and Robert Shapiro ($1.5 million). The big loser? Alan Dershowitz, who'll rake in just...
Royal has a three-year, $214,000 contract with the city to do the hospital's laundry, according to Marka Peterson, an organizer of the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE claims that the 150 workers, most of whom receive between 54.50 and 56 per hour, are underpaid and subjected to dangerous work conditions, including exposure to blood and feces. They also charged that Royal has offered an unreasonably expensive health-insurance plan for its employees...
...Healy said the city cannot do much unless federal or state agencies find that Royal broke laws. The city has no investigatory agency of its own, and usually only investigates construction companies, not service firms, before subcontracting, Healy said. Generally, a contract can only be terminated if a clear breach of the contract occurs...