Word: contraction
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...Telekom's 20-member supervisory board, which appoints and oversees the executive management, was scheduled to meet on Dec. 5 to discuss the state of the company's business and whether to extend Ricke?s five-year contract, due to expire in November 2007. But after the company' s third-quarter financial report released this week showed that the slide in the company's domestic business is continuing unabated, investors became convinced that the only recourse is to change faces at the top as soon as possible. According to people familiar with the situation, the supervisory board could now meet...
...leader in the House. But John Boehner, the Ohio rep and current number two under Hastert who is running against Pence for that post, says he's the man to help Republicans restore the principles they embraced in 1994, since he was one of the authors of the original Contract with America. Joe Barton, a Texas member who currently is chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, is also considering the top job. Meanwhile John Shadegg, the Arizona congressman who wants the No. 2 job, Minority Whip, is playing up his reform credentials, noting he was elected...
...Harvard, Moore had also performed with well-known companies throughout the world, including the American Ballet Theatre in New York, the Royal Ballet in London, the Salzburg International Ballet Academy, and Ecole Supérieure de Danse Cannes Rosella Hightower in France. After graduation, she turned down a contract to dance professionally in favor of pursuing academics...
...contract may await him, but at the moment, his gridiron is a dusty gym off Garden Street...
...smooth, slightly exaggerated features of a television news anchor and, of course, he was one. He was the original host of Fox News Sunday. He was editor of the conservative Washington Times editorial page. He filled in regularly for Rush Limbaugh. Then he walked away from a $1.7 million contract with Fox News to become the most famous White House press secretary in history. Even in the White House's West Wing, where restrictions on visitors ensure that no one is just a tourist, his appearance in the hallway can elicit a bubble of giggly Beatlemania; I heard a visiting...