Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea the U.N. took up in the name of law and in law's terms, the question of repeated Communist violations of contract in the armistice agreement. With the facts established, the U.N. command sat down at Panmunjom and quietly announced that it meant to modernize its own forces, thus redress the legal balance...
...parents demanded an immediate explanation. In a town that takes its Little Leagues seriously (the Mountainville League that the Jets belong to has a total of 270 players and the only regulation ballpark in town), the truth hurt. The two boys were not gadabouts; they were Little League "contract jumpers...
When word leaked out last week, the contract jumpers were promptly cut from the Builders' roster. But Manager Kromer had no apologies for his bonuses. He had no fancy ballyard, he said; how else could he lure players? His words went unheeded. Fearful lest the youngsters be embarrassed by the publicity, local papers kept their names out of stories of the scandal. One of the boys is already back in a Jet uniform thanks to his father's appeal to the league's board of governors. The other, unfortunately, has yet to report back and apologize...
MICHIGAN TAX HASSLE, which caused General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice to warn that automakers may locate new plants out of state to avoid high corporate taxes, is also affecting contracts awarded by armed forces. Army gave $119 million tank contract to Chrysler, but told automaker to fill order at its Delaware plant because using Detroit facilities would pad bill by $300,000 Michigan tax, plus $1,579,000 in other costs...
...months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program in the contract as a fringe benefit...