Word: contract
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...stage name of Gregg Gillis, to perform, Fun Czar Jason B. McCoy ’08 called for concertgoers to move back. Students squeezed up against the stage posed a safety concern because there were no concert barriers in place during the performance. As per Gillis’ contract, no concert barriers were in place during his performance, Pararas said. As throngs filled the Yard in front of the John Harvard statue, students bobbed to the music in parkas and sipped apple cider and hot chocolate. Those who braved the chill waved glow sticks and foam fingers as CEB members...
Hill, E.D. • unrenewed Fox News contract...
...Bill Clinton, and that superlawyer Vernon Jordan was trying to land her a job to buy her silence in the ongoing Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit against the President. The story rang a bell with the prosecutors, who had been pursuing evidence that Jordan helped obtain a lucrative consulting contract for another Clinton pal who was a potential witness in the Whitewater land-deal probe. Starr's team had heard enough from Tripp to wire her up for a planned meeting on Jan. 13 with Lewinsky, who ended up confiding more damaging information about Clinton: she claimed he had told...
...holds up in court, there is still a chance that the case could keep going. Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA who has followed insider trading law for two decades and written a book on the topic, points out that the case law around whether or not a contract of confidentiality suffices for illegal insider trading "is not as clear as one would like." Some court findings, he says, suggest that it's not enough for two parties to merely agree to keep information confidential - they must also have a higher-level relationship, like that of a lawyer...
...there are practical administrative problems that are tough to overcome, and a perfect solution is extraordinarily difficult. “All we have to do is to tell the banks that ‘You can’t deal with these countries that did not sign this global contract that promises financial transparency,’” Stiglitz said, “but it is not as easy as it sounds.” The panel concluded that in order to regain foreign countries’ trust, and ultimately, to regain market losses, financial transparency and regulations...