Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest round of contract negotiations, the University's janitors, members of Local 254 of the Service Employees International Union, won significant wage increases, up to $1.15 per hour by 2002, ending a period of wage stagnation...
Atrial fibrillation occurs when the smaller two chambers of the heart (the atria) contract faster than the two larger ones (the ventricles), causing an erratic but still viable flow of blood. "We don't know all the causes of atrial fibrillation," says Dr. Mel Scheinman, a professor of cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco, who is not involved in Bradley's care. "High blood pressure or coronary-artery disease may predispose patients to develop [the condition]." Other cases, like Bradley's, apparently, occur for no obvious reason...
...Lardner, public health nurse at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where a student survived a case of meningitis last fall, said first-year students' unfamiliarity with crowded dormitory living and their tendency to partake in "high risk behavior," such a drinking and smoking, makes them most likely to contract the disease...
...chalkboard - struggling to gain power, reveling in their moment of glory, only to come crashing down a moment later. It is a world where men suppress their own humanity in order to become the "machine" - the ideal businessman - cool, collected, always closing a deal. It's a ripped contract. It's life...
...kidding!) and is currently rocking or rather popping through Europe on their oh-so-demanding lip-synching tour. When they make their U.S. debut later this year, expect mass hysteria (t-shirts, lunchboxes, posters, book tie-ins, etc. Oh and a deal with Pepsi once the Ricky Martin contract dies a miserable death in the next few months). After all, they're young, dreamy and entirely unoriginal what more could you want...