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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior Common Room lunch, an assistant professor talks about the expiration of his contract and consequent unemployment as if it were happening next week, instead of well over a year away...
That is in effect, if not in fact, what Arledge will be doing to Reasoner by removing him from the Evening News and giving him no other on-air assignment, though Reasoner's $500,000-a-year contract does not expire until 1980. Reasoner wants to return to CBS, where he has been offered a job as head of its documentary unit. Whether or not Arledge will release Reasoner from his contract remains uncertain. Arledge says only that he is not happy with Reasoner's present role, and anyway wants to put less emphasis on personalities and more...
...dancers, Ian Horvath and Dennis Nahat, decided that a town that supported a first-rate museum and symphony orchestra could handle ballet as well. They launched a school, and a company followed four years later. With an annual budget now approaching $1 million, the ballet has 28 dancers under contract and will stage 27 performances this season; attendance regularly runs to 70% to 80% of the city's 1,500-seat Hanna Theater. The company attempts few full-length classical works and emphasizes American choreographers...
Thomson had attempted to revoke the anti-nuclear group's contract with the National Guard, charging that the dance would raise money for illegal demonstrations at the Seabrook nuclear plant site...
...deciding the legal issues of contract law in this case, we, of course, are not passing on the aims or activities of the Clamshell Alliance," the court wrote...