Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know, these people ain't goin' nowhere," the idiot laughed. "I work for the 'T' ya know, huh. Ya know they tried to take somethin' from our contract, huh. But we striked. We said, 'No money, no work.' Huh. One guy chickened out -- he drove a bus in Brighton. If we ever find out his name, tousands of workers a gonna get a piece of his body. Huh. My old man, he's one of the big guys in the 'T,' ONE OF THE BIG GUYS...
...YORK-Police yesterday apparently accepted a contract offer by the city, ending rally demonstrations that had closed down some streets. The average policeman's pay jumped...
...police union said in an official statement that the contract was the best possible deal it could have made, but that it was the best deal it could get from the city at the present time...
...York's WNBC among them) mount three shows a night. Local news operations, once money-losing public service efforts, have become universally profitable; at many stations news is the most important source of income. Now anchors and their agents routinely play one station against another at contract-renewal time, and the stations pay up willingly...
...because both anchors and their bosses know that stations can afford it. "Obviously there's a limit to what we can pay, but we haven't hit that limit yet," admits WNBC's Fein. WABC's Roger Grimsby may reach $300,000 when his new contract is signed this year, and Station Manager Nelson of WBBM predicts that salaries of top anchors will hit $500,000 within the next five years. Says one KNBC newsman: "Remember when you were a kid and the teacher told you not to read with your lips? Well, you shouldn...