Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter sent last week includes statements warning that Facilities Maintenance could lose its contract. "Unless we dramatically improve on performance, we will lose the buildings to an outside contractor...
...House hearings on the White House travel-office scandal, it emerged that in early 1993 the President pushed a business proposal by his friend TV producer Harry Thomason. Clinton made notations on the proposal that an aviation business Thomason partly owned be awarded a $500,000 no-bid government contract. "These guys are sharp," he wrote, and put a check in the box marked ACTION...
Lefevre says he protested what he regarded as improper accounting and left the company in early 1993. The remainder of his contract was paid off in full via a wire transfer from a bank in the Cayman Islands. Curiously, Lefevre notes, the money was wired not by Chaumet or even Investcorp but by Lausanne Investments...
...harassment. Back in 1968, Denis Hoffman, who now owns Designer Donuts in Los Angeles, invested $10,000 in Spielberg's debut film Amblin. As part of the deal, Spielberg agreed to direct a film for Hoffman within the next 10 years. According to Spielberg, the director bought out the contract in 1977. Hoffman sees it differently and last May told Spielberg to direct a film for him or pony up $33 million. So Spielberg sued. Hoffman, naturally, is countersuing...
...This is frankly all about trying to preserve their positions here because these jobs [in other houses] have been lost to contract [in the past]," Vaughtin said...