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Ruth Owens, 57, understands this first hand. She was living on social security disability when Discover Bank sued her for breach of contract for failing to pay $5,564 in fees and interest on a $1,900 debt. In 2004, a Cleveland, Ohio municipal judge not only barred Discover from collecting any more money from Owens, but scolded Discover for its "unreasonable, unconscionable and unjust business practice...
...wake of its mammoth contract in Dubai, scrutiny of HMI intensified, and central administrators called for an external review of the organization...
...core concerns. House Masters and College administrators remained unconvinced of the desirability of cable, according to the message, but “if the College decides that supplying cable TV to the Houses is desirable, the College would manage the system and would most likely not contract the work to a student business.” If this hostility to cable is still the College’s position, it is disingenuous for the administration to reject potential installation proposals on the grounds of supposed feasibility concerns. The administration has said that cable will be one of the improvements...
...capable of conjuring them. His greatest creation is Diane. Acid-tongued and relentless, she is single-mindedly driven to purchase the rights for a play in which Mitchell will (heroically) portray a gay man. Her willingness to verbally abuse all comers into submission until the terms of the contract read “in perpetuity through the end of time” is representative of a character that is shallow, but delightfully so. Keiller’s performance is masterful; her character is in total control of her huge catalogue of barbs and imposing enough to silence the background music...
Fortunately, the strike did accomplish most of what it set out to achieve. Under the three-year contract that union leaders and production companies agreed upon this week, during the third year screenwriters’ residuals will be calculated as a percentage of “distributor’s gross receipts”—a formula that has less accounting uncertainty than the one dependent upon “producer’s gross receipts” that was used previously. This means that writers will receive more money for their movies and shows online than they...