Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government announced that it honored its contract with the Iraq Petroleum Co. (predominantly British, French and American), though it was also interested in "modifying" the fifty-fifty contract by negotiation-as Nuri had been too. The new government proclaimed its withdrawal from the Arab Union with Jordan and signed a treaty of mutual defense with Nasser, but then astonished everyone by asserting, in the words of Hashim Jawad, its new delegate to the U.N., that "Iraq has never renounced the Baghdad Pact. It has never been considered." And he added: "Our friendship to the United States is still the same...
...snags from all quarters. The voters last month approved the city's plan to make over to the Dodgers 169 acres of city-owned land in the Ravine so the Dodgers could build a stadium and parking lot there. But last week a Los Angeles court ruled the contract illegal...
...sell out. He ridicules his victim's low asking price, insists that his agency can get much more. After determining the prospect's wealth, he then asks an advance fee of about 1% of the newly inflated asking price, pressures the hopeful property owner into signing a contract on the spot...
Faced with the Teamsters' ultimatum, the Inquirer's management quickly gave in, put strikers back in their old jobs. At week's end, the Daily News, also owned by Triangle, announced restoration of the Guild's old contract, agreed to negotiate a new one. Saved by the heavy hand of the Teamsters, the Guild was back in business in Philadelphia...
Read's first post-victory job will be to sit down with studio representatives to work out a new contract for settling the five-month-old strike called against major motion picture companies by the A.F.M. over royalties on films released to TV. His second job: to call elections contesting the A.F.M.'s authority in the lucrative fields of live television and recordings. Petrillo's successor. Herman D. Kenin, predicted "catastrophe" for the Musicians Guild-brave talk to conceal the fact that Kenin's federation had suffered one of the rare setbacks in its 62-year...