Word: contractive
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...state has been generous, and among other things, is helping pick up the tab for a new football stadium, which will be ready for opening day this fall. Additionally, the women's basketball team is one of only a handful in the country that make money from a contract with Connecticut public television and ticket sales to its sold-out games. Today UConn's athletes are 52% female and 48% male, almost exactly the percentages of its undergraduate enrollment...
...Kingdom. One is a lanky Brazilian who speaks no English. The other is a powerful Senegalese whom Gazza introduces as Adam Caesar. His real name, it turns out, is Adama Cisse, but the Senegalese doesn't correct his British teammate. In halting English, he explains to Gazza that his contract hasn't been signed yet. His wife and children are back in France and fast running out of money. Could Gazza put in a good word for him with the coach? There are dozens of homeless foreign players roaming around China these days, desperately angling for a place to live...
...gold chains around his neck, raises a glass of Famous Grouse and shoots his son a crooked almost-smile. "Aw, look at me, Dad and Jimmy Five Bellies," says Gazza, leaning back in his chair with a San Miguel as they toast news that Adama Cisse will get a contract, thanks in part to Gascoigne's intervention. "I'm so happy, you know? Finally, I'm so happy again...
...Department of Justice argues that personal investments Shleifer made in Russia constituted a breach of contract and undermined his program’s mission to help manage Russia’s transition to capitalism...
Rawls, who died at the age of 81 on Nov. 24, 2001, revived the theory of the social contract and profoundly influenced the course of economic, political and philosophical thought with the 1971 publication of his seminal book A Theory of Justice...