Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guards Union Approves Contract...
...Harvard University Guards Union voted almost unanimously to ratify their contract with the University last Friday, ending a three-year stand-off during which the guards had worked without a contract...
During that discussion, it was resolved that the matter of the manager's contract would not be decided until after the November election, when the new City Council is elected...
...When people get frustrated, they lash out," he said, referring to Reeves, Toomey's and Triantafillou's efforts to end the city manager's contract...
Although it seems perfectly constitutional for the government to contract with religious groups to provide social services, many religious charities use the offer of services as bait for a proselytizing effort. This is not always a bad thing--many groups see their mission as feeding souls as well as stomachs--but it would be incompatible with federal funding, since the use of taxpayer dollars to proselytize is almost the definition of the "establishment of religion" prohibited in the Bill of Rights. These groups would be unable to transmit their religious message with public funds--meaning that something as simple...