Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coos Bay Lumberworker Don Dean, who has a daughter at Marshfield High, complains that too many kids see school as a democratic institution. It's not. It s an institution of learning." School-tax rebellions attest to parental dissatisfaction. Other indicators are experiments in Illinois and California with performance "contracts" between schools and parents. Example: in Oakland, teachers and parents last month signed a contract in which the teachers agreed to assign homework and parents in turn promised to provide their children with a quiet corner for studying every night...
Shea would not release the final tally of the union's ratification vote, but said support for the new contract was "very strong...
Thomas O. Pyle, vice president of the plan, said yesterday he believes the contract offer, which he offered to the union last week, will benefit both sides in the bargaining...
...encounter a valuable source who is willing to give the reporter information, but only for the reporter's education, not for printing. The reporter decides that this so-called "background information"--though certainly not as good as usable, attributable information--is better than nothing, and he makes a verbal contract with his source not to print what his source tells him in exchange for the information...
...glue that holds the contract together lies in the realization by the reporter that he is dependent on the good will of his source to better serve his readers in the long run. If he violates the contract, he could well end up alienating a vital source. This contract is not legally binding; it is simply an informal pact...