Word: contraction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ford is facing a similar problem: it simply cannot get enough of the batteries to keep up with the demand for its Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner hybrid models, says spokesman George Pipas. Ford currently has access to only 24,000 of the special batteries under a contract it signed years ago, he says. "The supply of batteries is capped...
...School Committee, which is stocked more heavily with critics of the district’s controversial superintendent, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, voted in January to offer him a new contract, but voted again in May to limit the contract extension to just one year...
Though McGovern, who opposed renewing Fowler-Finn’s contract, said that the terms of the extension were not imposed on the superintendent, the schools chief will leave office in August 2009, just six years after he took over the 5,700-student district...
...administration, but there are still some positive steps this administration can take—be it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol or the much-needed move to sever all ties with mercenary armies, starting with the expulsion of Blackwater U.S.A. (which at one point held a $1.2 billion contract with the U.S government and supplied up to 30000 private security guards in Iraq...
...senseless deaths of at least 14 innocent Iraqi civilians. The mercenaries responsible have enjoyed impunity for their deadly carelessness; nearly nine months have passed since the Iraqi government demanded that Blackwater depart, and the firm remains—enduring only a tasteful corporate redesign. In April, their contract was renewed for another year...