Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he signed his first recording contract in the '20s, Thomas ("Fats") Waller demanded an unusual rider: there had to be a fresh bottle of gin on his piano when he arrived in the morning and another to take home when he left in the afternoon. But then there was nothing usual about Fats. "He was a man of gargantuan appetites and talent," says Murray Horwitz, Ain't Misbehavin's associate director. "He was 100%. When he was with you, he didn't hold anything back. Everything he had was yours, his heart and whatever else...
...problem and solved it." What they threw was $6.6 billion for port expansion. The building program created a tremendous labor shortage; the Saudis solved it by requiring all large foreign contractors to bring their own workers along ? and add the cost to the price of the contract...
...that Corona, unable to pay the heavy legal fees for a case of such magnitude, granted Hawk exclusive literary and dramatic property rights to his life story in return for the lawyer's services. Even before the trial began. Hawk had hired a professional writer and negotiated a contract with Macmillan for a book about the case. This created a conflict of interest, said the court, that resulted in "an outrageous abrogation" of Corona's rights and "rendered the trial a farce and mockery...
...gloomy days earlier this decade, planemakers kept their spirits up with thoughts of the boom to come when airlines finally had enough cash to replace their aging, noisy and fuel-inefficient fleets. At last, this dream seems to be becoming reality. Last month Pan Am signed a $500 million contract with Lockheed for twelve wide-bodied TriStar L-1011s, and last week small, state-owned Singapore Airlines (SIA) stole Pan Am's headlines. It placed with Boeing the richest order in commercial aviation history: $900 million for 13 jumbo 747s and six medium-range 727s. Gleefully grabbing the record...
...moment of glory rapidly dimmed into a life time of despair, anxiety, prison tedium and the need to peddle their questionable confessions. Their literary accessory after the dubious facts tries to keep his end of the bargain. But he finally falters, at tempting to balance his conscience and his contract. -R.Z. Sheppard