Word: contractive
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...some of the world's sexiest lace bras. On his shop floor, surrounded by 200 young workers outfitted in pink kerchiefs and aprons, Yang points to the wall on which he has taped a laminated list of rules issued by Walt Disney Co., with which Asset Underwear has a contract to make clothing featuring Disney characters. The list prohibits, among other things, indentured servitude and "slavery." Yang thinks that's funny. His laborers come from villages across China to work 8-to-10-hour days for up to $120 a month and consider that a pretty good deal...
...documents from rival Lockheed Martin in a competition for $1 billion of space-launch business for the Air Force. Then just days before Condit's resignation, Boeing fired its chief financial officer, Michael Sears, for "unethical conduct" in his conversations with an Air Force official handling a $20 billion contract for 100 Boeing refueling tankers. The deal is on hold while the Pentagon's inspector general investigates...
...committee has been investigating charges that former Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Richard Klausner exercised undue influence in the decision to give a $40 million contract to a Harvard laboratory. Klausner was under consideration for the Harvard presidency while the decision was being made...
Lane played the last two years in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, which has a 70-game regular season, and last year led all Canadian Major Junior defensemen in scoring. But the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes, which drafted him in 2002, did not offer him a contract in the off-season...
...Rodriguez could have easily taken time off playing for the worst team in baseball. I mean, did it really matter if he was in the lineup come September? But he was out there, trying to earn every penny of his gaudy $252 million contract...