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...with most of his department's 136 vehicles, were lost. With the National Guard largely gone, his men are stretched thin, answering calls about looters and snakes. "We have lots of reptile infestations," says Stephens, who fled one house after encountering 15 water moccasins. "[That's] not in my contract." His men last week caught beasts of a different kind--an organized gang of looters...
Five days after their official resignation, the DormAid executives each received a letter from HSA’s lawyers. According to Kopko, the letter alleged that the students had committed a breach of contract by quitting their HSA jobs and misappropriated intellectual property by using HSA management techniques at DormAid...
...labor movement at Harvard gained steam in the early 1990s, when the HUSPMGU confronted University three years in a row about pay increases. The two ultimately signed a contract promising the workers a nine percent increase in pay over the course of three years...
Before she was a thriller writer, Karin Slaughter owned a sign company. Now she is an internationally bestselling author at the age of 34, with 5 million books in print. Slaughter's writing life is every author's dream, with a book contract in the high seven figures. Her latest novel, Faithless, is guaranteed to keep you nervously biting your nails, on the edge of your seat. The book is the suspense-filled story of a young woman who was buried alive in the Georgia woods, whose body was discovered by Slaughter's favorite characters, medical examiner Sara Linton...
...rest of the company, to say nothing of the world. That's not the way things work at J.P.L. The lab is not owned by NASA but rather is a nonprofit, federally funded research center managed by the California Institute of Technology and does its work for NASA under contract. The academics who work there come from the world of peer review, in which even theoretical work isn't considered sound until a lot of objective eyes have had a chance to look at it. When smart people ask questions of other smart people, often as not they get smart...