Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HARVARD'S DECISION to extend its contract to oversee the design of the Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU), that the Iranian government is constructing outside Teheran, is a deplorable one. Along with the $250,000 consulting agreement Harvard signed last spring with the Iranian Educational Radio and Television (IERT), another project sponsored by the Iranian government, this decision once again reveals Harvard's disheartening willingness to cooperate with one of the most repressive regimes in the world today...
...clear: Martin each time-in Minnesota, Detroit and Texas-had shrewdly turned the players against management to his own advantage. "These other guys didn't choose to take Billy on," said Steinbrenner. "I felt I could change him." As a start, he got Martin to accept a conditional contract stating that if the manager caused any dissension, his salary could be withheld, a contract Martin soon sharply resented. From the very beginning of the year, Steinbrenner hovered over his manager, offering unwanted advice, badgering him. Their confrontations were often stormy. One night after a difficult Yankee loss, Steinbrenner called...
...biggest name money could buy was Outfielder Reggie Jackson, whom Steinbrenner, over Martin's strong objections, signed last winter to a $2.9 million five-year contract. From the day Jackson stepped into the clubhouse, the Yankees, already out of sorts, were never out of trouble. Jackson's huge salary was highly resented and even more so was his erratic play. The players treated him like an outcast. But for Martin, Jackson always posed a different kind of threat: the big slugger, he feared, might come between him and control of his players. By the middle of June what...
...group down, and the four men argued until 6 in the morning. Several lineup changes were agreed to: Jackson henceforth would bat cleanup, certain pitchers would rotate every fourth day, Piniella would become the daily designated hitter. One other change: the no-pay salary clause in Martin's contract would be dropped...
...just show me a little personal touch," he said of Steinbrenner, "I'd go through the wall for him. He put the money up. I want to honor him. I really don't want to leave this job." Martin's obsession with his contract kept floating back. He leaned forward in his chair, and his face hardened. "Win or lose this Series," he said, "I'm going to demand a new contract that gives me some independence. If he fires me, he'll never live it down, with these fans." He sounded surer of himself...