Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After three years of negotiations, the executive board of the Harvard University Guards' Union agreed on a contract with University officials on June 25. The entire union will likely ratify the contract when they meet on July 9, union members said...
Still, some members of the union said they are not pleased with the contract, but accepted it because they saw it as the University's final offer. The contract was agreed upon with the University on June 23 after two days of intense final discussion...
Even with the new contract, the guards will not be eligible for raises until four years from...
...mistake was to sell the stock less than two months before Harken reported a stunning $23 million second-quarter loss. (Bush says he did not know Harken was going to report the loss and thought he was selling into good news--the forthcoming announcement of a new drilling contract.) But it was widely assumed that Bush, a director of the company, had insider knowledge and dumped his stock in advance of the bad news. He compounded the problem by failing to file an SEC disclosure form...
...stock sale put him on the front pages and proved an embarrassment to his father's 1992 campaign. It also called attention to the little-known fact that in early 1990 Harken was awarded an exclusive contract from the government of Bahrain to drill for oil off that country's coast. With no offshore-drilling experience, Harken was an implausible choice. It was easy to assume that Bahrain was trying to curry favor with the President by giving business to a company tied to his son. Harken insiders say Bush actually opposed the deal (he was right; the wells turned...