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Ever since Bank of America bought out FleetBoston Financial last year, the FleetCenter naming rights contract has been obsolete...
...winning bid of $2,325 on Wednesday gave him the authority to name the arena on March 1, as corporate owner Delaware North Cos. continued to auction temporary naming rights and donate the proceeds to charity. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., opted not to renew the naming contract with the arena after it acquired FleetBoston Financial last year...
Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now hand make each piece. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make," says Chanin, 43. "We might make one coat only 20 times. That means there are only 20 in the world, and each garment is handmade by someone different." That rarefied notion has splashed Project Alabama across the pages of Vogue, Elle and the New York Times and onto the racks of high-end retailers like Barneys and Jeffrey in New York. "We haven't invented anything new," explains Chanin about...
...silence was deafening. For nearly two months, the musicians of the St. Louis Symphony refused to pick up their instruments after their contract expired. Then last week, after the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the stoppage was an illegal strike, the musicians and management finally agreed on a new 3 1/2-year contract, to be ratified by the orchestra this week. Base pay for orchestra members will rise by a small amount, to $74,000 next year (still far less than the $100,000 paid by the Chicago Symphony and other top ensembles), and the prestigious orchestra, the nation...
...contract basically says ‘If you want to play in our tournaments…then you also have to give up all of these other rights,’” Bloch said, adding that professional poker players are making efforts to organize into a union of sorts...