Word: contractive
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...legend from 22 countries (including China) to become what the promoters modestly proclaim is the "Supermodel of the World." The contest, once known less grandiosely as "Face of the Eighties," is conducted annually by the Eileen Ford modeling agency, which will now award Monica a three-year $250,000 contract, a $10,000 diamond pendant and a $6,500 fox fur. The Toronto ninth-grader hopes eventually to break into the movies, but is satisfied for the moment with the profession she has been practicing for all of eight months. "The best part is the end result, seeing your picture...
...injured when one of the straps came loose; he sued several defendants, including the strapmaker, and won $1 million. The facts, according to the lawyers' group: ten athletes competed in a televised stunt race, each with a 400-lb. refrigerator strapped to his back; each received a written contract guaranteeing that the equipment had been tested for safety. Franco Columbo, a world-champion body builder, did fall and suffered total knee displacement that required extensive surgery. At the trial, testimony showed that the equipment had never been tested on anyone of Columbo's size while running...
...constituents. Soon, though, the reason for Manes' inner torture became known: his close friend Geoffrey Lindenauer, 52, whom Manes had placed as deputy director of the city's parking-violations bureau, was charged with extorting $5,000 from a private collection agency as a payoff for a contract to dun motorists for unpaid parking tickets...
...Texas State Teachers Association, which represents 55,000 of the state's teachers, had brought suit to block the test, claiming that teacher certification comprised a lifetime contract, which the 1984 act violated ex post facto. In a decision handed down the week before the test date, Travis County District Judge Harley Clark ruled that the test could proceed. The teachers, backed by the National Education Association, the umbrella union for the state association, will appeal to the Texas Supreme Court, which may rule on the exam's validity before the results come out in June...
...David Martin, head of the Government Ethics Office, recommended that the Justice Department investigate Deaver's lobbying contract with the Canadian government. Present law permanently bars a U.S. Government official who "participated personally and substantially" in handling an issue from later lobbying on that same issue. Deaver insists that in the White House he was only tangentially concerned with U.S.-Canadian relations, but others have reported that he helped to choose an envoy to negotiate with Ottawa on acid-rain problems. A Canadian government spokesman denied a Washington Post report that Deaver had begun negotiating to sign up Canada...