Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union protested Gorski's attempts to reorganize the force, which it alleged had lowered morale in the department. It refused to bargain for its new contract...
Wyatt later appointed William A. Lee, a personnel administrator in the Department of Buildings and Grounds with no prior police experience, as acting chief. The union still has not signed a new contract...
...even if Kearns-Goodwin didn't get the contract she wanted from Harvard, she is still doing alright. Her husband said she has "a very substantial, very big contract with Simon and Schuster" publishers...
...source of problems between Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra was money. Even though Philadelphians revered their orchestra's music director and may ultimately have been responsible for securing Stokowski a contract that paid him $2000 per concert, they publicly criticized him for demanding what was then an astronomical fee. Money was only one bone of contention, though. As Stokowski's salary went up, he demanded that the number of concerts scheduled each season drop, inciting the anger of management. The straw that broke the camel's back was Stokowski's insistence on programming contemporary works: he viewed the well-subscribed...
...swiftness of the final negotiations was surprising, since the U.S. and Canada have engaged in considerable bargaining about the project. More unusual, a relatively small and unknown company beat out the giants of the North American gas industry to win the contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested...