Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...band to form their own group. In 1972 he advanced them $100,000, along with instructions to head for Colorado to get an act together. When the Eagles returned a month later, Geffen, who had become president of the newly created Asylum Records, immediately gave them a recording contract...
...time when much of the recording industry is feeling the nation's economic squeeze-a few companies report sales down as much as 30%-Motown Record Corp., the black pop-music giant, has given Megastar Stevie Wonder, 25, a new contract for a guaranteed minimum of $13 million. If the singer-songwriter delivers more than the single annual LP required by the seven-year agreement, he can earn up to $24 million. The largest parcel handed out yet by a record company, Wonder's contract is worth as much as the Elton John ($8 million) and Neil Diamond...
Wonder, who has won ten Grammy awards in the past two years, averages 1 million sales per record. Since he began recording at Motown as twelve-year-old Little Stevie Wonder, he has sold more than 30 million albums. Asked about how the current contract compares with Wonder's early paydays, Motown Records President Ewart Abner just laughed. "We're not even talking about apples and oranges," he said. "It's more like comparing mustard seeds and watermelons...
This year Finley has had to make up for the loss of Catfish Hunter, who won 25 games for him last season. After an arbitrator found Finley guilty of breach of contract, Hunter got his release and signed with the Yankees in a record $3 million deal. So far, his departure has not hurt. Finley has since traded for Veteran Hurlers Jim Perry, Sonny Siebert, Stan Bahnsen and Dick Bosnian, and the A's have won 23 of the 38 games these pitchers started...
Jones said the chances of Boverini's bill passing the legislature were "slim" because the present state of the budget was "troubled." "Contract board is a great resource--the Governor and the Legislature are going to want to tap it," he added...