Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some workers at the South Station tunnel site, "We get paid $90,000 a year and that's probably a hell of a lot more than you'll get paid out of Harvard." The engineer working at the hole next door to the bus station talks about his contract, which began 16 months ago. "I work on structure here, and the reason this project is taking longer than anything else like it is because of all the steel supports that have to be inserted as we dig the tunnels. Without them, all these buildings would fall into the hole...
Right now, Let's Go is in the midst of renegotiating its contract with St. Martin's Press...
...decisive. Justice is now making a more wide-ranging argument that there is a pervasive pattern of Microsoft's using its monopoly on PC operating software--Windows--to coerce other companies to do its bidding in a broad array of other business relationships. "It's not necessarily any one contract but the pattern of conduct over the course of time and the cumulative effect that the contracts have," says University of Minnesota Law School dean E. Thomas Sullivan...
...critical-care and lung specialist in a small community-based hospital, I am frequently confounded by the decisions made by faceless HMO administrators who tell me how to take care of a person they have never seen. The most important "contract" in medicine is, and always will be, between the physician and the patient and his or her family. Until Congress completes the work of protecting patients' rights, health care will continue to take second place to the financial health of the insurers and HMOs. GARY R. SCHAFER, M.D. Rutherfordton...
...grow, leading to the group's apparent autonomy from the shifty nature of the music industry. Still, executives at Warner Bros. had to worry just a little after the low sales of New Adventures in Hi-Fi in 1996, especially after the band was re-signed to a lucrative contract a few years...