Word: contract
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District Police officers, for example, have written in their contract that they will never be taken to D.C. General in the case of a trauma emergency. If an officer and an innocent bystander get shot, the officer is helicoptered to a high-tech facility in Virginia, and the city resident goes to D.C. General...
...quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between the princes and their lieges. Saudi citizens may come to realize that if the monarch cannot ensure their security, perhaps he ought not to be the only person running things...
...planned its $3.4 billion takeover of Columbia Pictures last year, Yetnikoff tried to help out by orchestrating what turned into a costly $500 million deal to hire Jon Peters and Peter Guber, the producers of Batman, to run the movie studio. But rival Warner Bros. contended it had a contract with the producers and sued Sony. In a settlement, Warner won valuable properties, including half-ownership of the CBS record club...
...season gets under way, universities are competing hard on the field. But the Federal Trade Commission charged last week that 63 major schools represented by the College Football Association have conspired with Capital Cities/ABC to avoid competition in the marketplace. The complaint alleged that a five-year, $300 million contract between the C.F.A. and Capital Cities would illegally limit the number of games...
Under the contract, ABC and its ESPN cable affiliate would have sole broadcast rights to Saturday games between C.F.A. opponents beginning next year. Other participating C.F.A. schools may sell TV rights to local stations on other days. Capital Cities/ABC and the C.F.A. denied the charges in the complaint. Among other things, they noted that home games of Notre Dame, a C.F.A. member, will be on NBC. An FTC judge in Washington is to try the case...