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...risk he is gladly taking. Wilkinson could have made a lot more money as a businessman (his four-year contract reportedly carries an annual salary of $100,000), and he could still be a formidable political candidate: in 1964 he was nearly elected to the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma, a heavily Democratic state. But he is a restless and supercharged man, although he usually fools people by keeping his emotions tightly reined, and he could find no more heady challenge than football. He accepts the frustrations and the sleepless Sunday nights, when he replays a loss so vividly...
...society hopes to put the contract to a vote of all UMass faculty for general ratification, Jack Cathey, president of the group, said yesterday...
Negotiators for the Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP), which represents the faculty of UMass-Amherst last week signed a contract ending their dispute with the university...
...spokesman for the FSU said his organization decided Friday to seek an injunction if the other groups representing professors "bypass any provisions in bringing up a contract for ratification...
According to an FSU spokesman who asked to remain unidentified, an article in the union's constitution stipulates that both negotiating parties must agree to a contract's terms before it can be put to general vote...