Word: contractive
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...restructuring effort by Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, whose rocky tenure has already seen the contentious merger of two elementary schools and the reorganization of the city’s high school. Just a month ago, the school committee decided that it would let her contract lapse after this summer...
...wonders how long it will be before impressionable youth start hobbling around on crutches. That is how Jackson arrived last week at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he is being sued for $21 million by a concert promoter who contends that the singer broke his contract by canceling two shows. Jackson explained that his bandaged foot was the result of a spider bite--but not one inflicted by one of his pet tarantulas. Possibly still woozy from the experience, he made faces and hand gestures on the stand, though he was lucid enough to allege that...
...became a huge hit, that passion was put into action. Madonna and Goldie Hawn were originally attached to star. But when director Nicholas Hytner (The Crucible) came aboard in 1999, he suggested that Hawn was too old for the part of the ingenue Roxie, and Weinstein bought out her contract for an estimated $1 million...
...after Independence Day in 2001 (this could only be an American Christmas story), Minuto filed suit against Harvard for, among other things, breach of contract after his transfer request was denied. A redshirt freshman at Tulane University who had once starred at quarterback for Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey, Minuto contended that Murphy and then-assistant Bruce Tall promised him that his transfer request would be successful, that the rest of the admissions process was a formality and that he should drop his Tulane commitments and any other transfer plans to pack his bags for Cambridge...
During the offseason, New Hampshire did not renew the contract of longtime coach Karen Kay. Once one of the nation’s most dominant hockey programs, New Hampshire had fallen well short of making the national tournament in each of the past three seasons under Kay and lost nine straight to Harvard. Prior to 1999, UNH had never lost to Harvard...