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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Also sure to be leaving DEI will be Anheuser-Busch, which hitched its beer wagon to Earnhardt in 2000. The Budweiser contract with DEI has an opt-out clause that will allow them to follow. Earnhardt also made it a point to express his loyalty to Chevrolet, whose nameplate he's raced under his whole career. The automaker has featured him prominently in its celebrity driven advertising campaigns. Were he to end up in another make, such as Toyota - which entered the Nextel Cup Series this season but has been embarrassed by poor performance and cheating scandals from the start...
...Going into the final year of his contract with DEI, Earnhardt, working with his sister and business manager Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, said that he wanted at least 51% of the family business to continue his career there. Elledge had given a date of late May for striking a new deal or moving on, but Earnhardt said Thursday that the sides were so far apart that there was no need to wait until then to make the split official...
Ousted on-air personality DON IMUS is suing his erstwhile employer CBS, saying the company contractually required him to be "irreverent" and even "controversial." (Contract fulfilled!) Media blogsite JOSSIP poses this koan: "When a disgraced former radio host gets fired ... and there's still $40 million left on his contract, will anyone write him a check?" SCORE...
...student protesters are demanding that Harvard intervene for higher wages in contract negotiations between outside security contractor AlliedBarton and guards hired by the firm for Harvard's campuses...
Students Fast for Guards (April 27, 2007): Around 75 student activists begin a day-long fast in an attempt to sway the contract negotiations. The day was marked with a protest in front of Massachusetts Hall in which students attempted to hand deliver a letter to Interim President Derek...