Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until this year, Sammy Sosa was widely considered to be a Big Creep. The rap was that he was a selfish player, a braggart who couldn't deliver when it counted. Last year, up for a new contract and trying to impress his owners with gaudy numbers, he hit 36 homers but made a mess of it on the way, leading the league in strikeouts, having a worse on-base percentage than some pitchers and being so reckless on the bases that his normally mellow manager had to scream at him in the dugout on live television. His obsession with...
Probably the biggest misconception about hepatitis B is that only drug users or prostitutes contract it. While it is true that most adults become infected through sex or exposure to contaminated needles, perhaps a third of all cases cannot clearly be linked to such causes. "Nature isn't tidy," says Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. "We had a case of two people who only worked together. One had hepatitis B, though he didn't know it, and the other didn't. On a single occasion, they drank from the same Coke. It happened at just...
WHRB President Ashwin Vasan '98 said yesterday that the station had not yet signed a contract with broadcast.com for this football season...
...contract dispute between WHRB and the Internet company prevented the coverage of the Sept. 19 football game vs. Columbia from going online, station officials said...
...While our live coverage of these games is normally broadcast over the Internet, we are unable to do so for the Columbia game due to certain contract issues with broadcast.com," the statement read...