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...Safran agreed to a $107,430 book contract with the CIA that granted the agency the right to censor the book and required that Safran not reveal the CIA funding...
Safran did properly disclose this to then Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, according to a three-month investigation in 1985 by Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence. Rovosky made “administrative errors” in failing to review the terms of the contract and not responding to Safran’s disclosure, Spence determined...
...language and grand theories of English and Scottish Enlightenment thinkers, most notably the concept of natural rights propounded by John Locke, whose Second Treatise on Government he had read at least three times. And he built his case, in a manner more sophisticated than Franklin would have, on a contract between government and the governed that was founded on the consent of the people. Jefferson also, it should be noted, borrowed freely from the phrasings of others, including the resounding Declaration of Rights in the new Virginia constitution that had just been drafted by his fellow planter George Mason...
...last week upheld a $23.6 million severance payout for Jean-Marie Messier, the ousted CEO of Vivendi Universal. Jean-René Fourtou, Messier's successor, described the payout as "indecent" and promised to contest the decision. He has little room for maneuver: the payout was written into a U.S. contract agreed to last July by two Vivendi directors, Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman Jr., to persuade Messier to depart quickly and quietly. The full board rejected the contract days later, after Messier had quit. The arbitration ruling highlights a fundamental difference between U.S. and European corporate practice...
While its current four-year contract is up on July 1, HUSPMGU wages were renegotiated last May in line with HCECP recommendations, increasing the minimum wage paid to security guards from $8.75 an hour to $12.25 an hour. Entry-level wages rose further last July, to $12.70. Though entry-level salaries were raised dramatically, all of the in-house security guards earned $11.97 before the renegotiation, more than the $10.68 minimum-wage named by the report...