Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Healey insisted that the new plan, popularly dubbed Social Contract Mark Two, must be hammered out within the next few weeks, well before the Trades Union Congress's September conference sounds the opening gun for the next round of wage negotiations. Although a recent Opinion Research Center poll disclosed that 70% of Britain's voters, including 63% of trade union members, want the government to take legal control of wage settlements, the Chancellor rejected the notion of a statutory wage policy. Hopes for an effective policy of voluntary wage restraint were raised, however, when the T.U.C...
...Northrop paid $705,000 to Iranian Prince Charam Pahlavinia, a member of the imperial family, for services such as helping the company find a good Iranian architect. At the time, Northrop was part of a consortium that received a $200 million contract to build a telecommunications system in Iran. Northrop maintains that the payment was a legitimate business expense...
...Contract out the collection of refuse to private companies. It is estimated that it costs the city $45 a ton to pick up garbage, while private collectors perform the same job for $22 a ton in San Francisco, $19 a ton in Boston, $18 a ton in Minneapolis...
...announced her engagement to Boy Friend Errol Wetson. On the pop scales, Margaux was beginning to outrank even Mick Jagger. Clearly, something big was about to happen to Margaux. Sure enough, in the middle of May, just 249 days after her arrival in Manhattan, she landed the biggest advertising contract ever given to a woman: $1 million from Fabergé to promote a new, unnamed scent. Said Margaux simply: "It's the best, you guys...
Glikes's contention is that Kearns's has been "badly hurt and badly used' by Goodwin, to effect contract that would assure them $130,000 more in advances. He has said that Goodwin's financial situation is "extremely dire," and the last time I spoke with him, he urged me to do more reporting, explaining, "Doris didn't need the $130,000, and that's the sad part about it--somebody else did... That's where this story can be broken wide open...