Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports' most effective commissioner remains unblemished after the NBA and the players union reached a new collective bargaining agreement just minutes before yesterday's midnight deadline. Next up for the commissioner: to persuade a group of balking players led by Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing to approve the contract. If the players refuse, they could challenge the league plan in the courts, a move that could result in the cancellation of the 1995-96 season...
...context of the isolationism espoused by proponents of "Contract for America," the Senate bill reiterates the Gingrichian intention to withdraw the U.S. from the international stage. The Contract's single foreign policy goal has been--as Newt Gingerich euphemistically puts it--"to eviscerate the American role in collective security." Put more plainly, it call for the categorical removal of the U.S. from continuous participation in international diplomacy, without building an effective multilateral security architecture in its wake...
...policing if we hope to partake in this prosperity. The consequences of such a policy would compromise economic and political relations as well as our strategic links abroad. Indeed, while its revisionist policy on the U.N. aims at denying this paramount institution of collective security any real influence, the "Contract for America" cleverly fails to address the issue of foreign trade and investment altogether...
...shut off economic growth. But many Westerners just don't want the pace of their lives to change. Cynthia Hall, who lives outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, cherishes her daily walks in the alfalfa fields on the outskirts of town. Last February she heard that a developer was under contract to buy 150 acres in the area and was seeking to have it annexed to the city so it could be commercially developed. Hall, along with a dozen neighbors, formed the Anderson Field Alliance to block the move and attempt to raise $8 million to buy and preserve the land...
...NCAA probation. Three seasons after winning its sixth national championship, the team was given three years of sanctions for displaying "a distressing failure of institutional control" over players. Investigators said the university violated NCAA rules by not reporting that cornerback cornerback Antonio Langham had illegally signed a contract with an agent...