Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These problems have caused negotiations for a new contract for the guard union to stall--there has been no significant progress since an autonomous guard union formed...
...Problems, No Contract...
Guards also feared for their wallets as anotherHarvard union, the custodial workers, had theirwages frozen for 20 months and vacation timedecreased in a 1996 contract with the University...
VEINS AND ARTERIES. Blood vessels present a special challenge: they must be strong yet flexible enough to expand and contract with each heartbeat. Joseph Vacanti's group has grown a tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then...
Then there's the shared group trauma: in 1995, after two smash records, TLC filed for bankruptcy. Some observers in the music industry viewed the move as a sly legal strategy for the group to negotiate a better contract with its record label, LaFace. But Watkins says the trio was genuinely broke. "We were broke like our lights were off," she says. "Broke like our phone was disconnected. Broke. It came as a shock to y'all. Not to us. We was the ones living it. So I knew the money I wasn't getting...