Word: contracts
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Residents and interns picketed Cambridge City Hospital yesterday to protest the City of Cambridge's refusal to negotiate a contract while both parties await a state ruling on alleged unfair labor practices...
Bryant ranks second only to the Archives he built as a storehouse of University lore. "When Mrs. Widener gave the library," he begins, "she conceived of it as containing Harry Widener's quite phenomenal collection of rare books and manuscripts." In the gift contract, the University agreed it would not change or add a brick to the original structure, although it later explored and rejected the possibility of building in the light courts which separate the east and west portions of the Widener stacks. "The bridge between Widener and Houghton Library is, technically, a temporary structure," Bryant says...
...clerical workers yesterday demanded at a membership meeting that the university recognize their union, begin contract negotiations with union representatives and then submit disputed points to binding arbitration...
Sadly, this sort of fine writing, which Barthelme once piled up in quantity in the vast golden junkyards that were his books, stands out all too starkly in Great Days. Barthelme has chosen to contract his appeal to a limited audience, and move toward obscurantism. The self-consciousness engendered by the huge welter of 20th-century literary criticism inhibits Barthelme, forces him to kill his prose with refinement. Where are the barbarians...
Star Crimson sportswriter Bill Scheft was hired yesterday to bring new spark to the sports department at the Albany Times-Union. Contract details were not disclosed...