Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience (not just the disorderly ones) seems to have judged that the organizers violated an unwritten social contract. Things came to a head on the final night; the crowds made bonfires of accumulated trash heaps and danced around the flames--a Dionysian image for the cameras. Rioters, admittedly a small minority of the crowd of more than 200,000, attacked concession stands and threw tables and chairs onto the flames. The more ambitious attacked an ATM. Someone burned a Mercedes near the stage; others set fire to 12 tractor-trailer trucks; propane tanks fired off gaudily...
...month for Net access and are rife with hidden fees for basics like a monitor, tech support and one-time "start-up" charges. And then there's the nagging fear that these newcomers will vanish into cyberspace long before your three-year contract is up. Would you really want to do business with a company called Enchilada? Actually, you can't anymore, since it stopped taking orders in early July, less than three months after it was rolled...
...said all of the workers employed by Everett Decorators are ethnic minorities, as is the owner of the firm. And while Laughlin said the firm's owner benefited from preferences given to minorities in the contract bidding process, he said the benefits are not being passed on to minority workers...
...games and cheer away. I will take part in pitching, batting, jump shots and lay-ups. The next time you see zealous, overheated parents, remember that at least they have taken the time to participate in their child's life. Not every parent is looking for a multimillion-dollar contract. What's being sculpted here is not a pro athlete but a secure, stable, responsible adult. This weekend's baseball game is where we will continue teaching the lessons of life...one pitch at a time. SHARON HAIGNEY Fort Worth, Texas...
...happened slowly but very surely. By 1980, UPI had been losing money for 25 straight years, and Scripps had had enough. The company went up for sale and, while on the market, lost its contract with the New York Daily News, which may well have been its lifeblood. UPI's contract with the also-struggling tabloid was good for $55,000 per month. In desperate denial, UPI offered to let the Daily News hang on to its service for free for months, hoping to win back the contract. Enter the Tennesseans...