Word: contract
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...congratulate the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) for hashing out a three-year labor agreement, after several months of negotiations. The accord represents a victory for compromise, coming much more quickly and with far less acrimony than the bitter negotiations on the last contract...
Unlike many of the flashier aspects of the Contract With America, the Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation Act of 1995 has garnered little attention from the media. Floor-managed by the lightweight Senator Pressler of South Dakota, the Act passed the Senate and the House by wide margins. Given the complexity of the technological issues involved, it is unlikely that the American public will pay much attention to upcoming wrangling between President Clinton and Congressional leaders over the bill's disposition. However, this issue is exceptionally important to the future management of communicative interactions in the American public and private sphere...
Sure, the Congress and its Contract With/On America bulldozed through a lot of legislation last spring. But compared to this fall's agenda, which includes health care reform, last spring was child's play...
...agreement can be reached, the current contract provides for a delayed schedule of implementation for controversial cuts...
...agreement was reached considerably faster than the last contract in 1992, when negotiations dragged on for more than a year...