Word: contracting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...question of funding went to Dartmouth's trustees, who decided to add the money Dartmouth receives from a contract with Coca Cola to the student life pool, in addition to raising the activity...
...facility at which she created the meningitis vaccine. But she's also a communist Politburo member, and she got a crash course in capitalist haggling during the negotiations, as well as a closer, less ideological understanding of Americans. "It was hard to make sense of all those Anglo-Saxon contract clauses," she told TIME. "But we appreciated each other's forms of thinking better...
...element of the social contract is more fundamental to our way of life than the sacred covenant between the TV set and our butts. We secure the latter firmly to the couch; the former vouchsafes to deliver a stream of car chases and oh-no-they-locked-themselves-in-the-walk-in-freezer episodes. This arrangement has seen us through the cold war, presidential scandals, even the final season of Roseanne. But this week a new interactive music-trivia show on MTV aims to upset that tradition by introducing a third party: the keyboard...
...more than one person simultaneously [FAMILIES, Nov. 15]: Once we accept "gay marriages," accepting polygamy and recognizing "marriages" of three persons or more is next. If the traditional model of marriage is discarded, by what logic can our society hold that only two people can enter into a marriage contract? Being sensitive to and tolerating polygamy will become the next test of enlightened virtue. TERRY L. CLASSEN Eau Claire...
SEIU Local 285 represents the workers of the Wingate at Wilbraham Nursing Home, which is owned by Gerald Schuster. The local charges the company with thwarting workers' attempts to negotiate a first contract at the facility...