Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling good about yourself, a way of measuring how far you have come. As one of Atlas's friends tells him, he needs money to feel smart. Money is treated as a psychological necessity, like security, or peace of mind. The New York Observer treats the book contract bonanza lore like a gold rush than a session with a therapist. There is so much money out there, you simply have to take advantage of the market. The Observer piece reads like a challenge to our yankee ingenuity. In the old days we would have had to invent some new spindle...
...million-dollar contract continue at this pace, it is likely that our critics will have less and less to say of genuine interest. Naturally, there will be exceptions--the rich writer who "doesn't buy his own smoke," as my great uncle likes to say. On the whole, we can imagine a bevy of writers trotting out clever anecdotes about caviar parties of making up involved historical "episodes" without anything more worthwhile to say. I do not think we have to be worried just yet, however. The economy is bound to relax a bit, the contracts should come down...
Harvard departments review untenured faculty inthe seventh year of an eight-year contract, butsome junior faculty choose to leave before theirchances for promotion are so slim...
Daily Spin "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Newspaper advertisement for new parents taken out by 10-year-old British twins Lauren and Ashton Mills, whose mother is dying of cancer...
...years ago, ED GILLESPIE was busy orchestrating the Republican takeover of Congress as the G.O.P.'s top spinmeister. Now the man behind the Contract with America is shifting to high tech as he battles a new foe: a plan to ban software capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. A law proposed by the FBI would mandate an electronic peephole in all encryption programs so that government agents can read your files. The FBI claims this is necessary to protect against criminals. But Silicon Valley chiefs see this as a threat, and are equipping Gillespie...