Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trade was big news, making the cover of Sports Illustrated and ESPN Magazine. He was supposed to elevate the Rockets to contender status. He got the huge contract he felt he deserved and went on to have his worst year since...
Kovach also has a contract to write a memoir about his experience at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was an editor for two years before resigning due to a dispute with the newspaper's owners...
...current contract requires teachers to be in the school building 15 minutes before the bell in the morning, and to stay 10 minutes after the afternoon bell. They are paid only for this time...
...CARDINALS The K.C. Line I lovethe Cards, especially now that speedy receiver Rob Moore is happy and back with a new contract (just hope all that cash doesn't slow him down). Monday, they're at home against a 49'ers team that's starting to show its age ? only the Cajun Contagion, Billy Joe Hobart, stood between them and defeat last week ? and getting two points to boot. Go with the boys...
...Kathie Lee makes good on that threat by tearing up her contract with yet another sweatshop, will her actions have an impact in the grand scheme of workers? rights? Eventually, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "There?s an inexorable trend toward better working conditions in factories abroad. It?s part and parcel of the globalization process." These days, Baumohl explains, when a U.S.-based company sends manufacturing contracts abroad, it is expected, and sometimes required, to pay a reasonable wage for services rendered. In countries highly dependent on foreign contracts, an increase in manufacturing-job salaries means...