Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...opening a storefront, Kinko's makes an informal contract with the community to produce facsimiles for its customers, regardless of content (save copyright and First Amendment restrictions). Thus, the situation becomes as clear-cut as Skokie or Deep Throat...
LETTICE AND LOVAGE. Maggie Smith earned a Tony this past season as a faded actress turned tour guide whose grand gestures bring only small triumphs. Now her contract is up and the show is leaving Broadway soon, so give yourself an early Christmas present...
...worth. People who have lost their jobs experience anger, denial and a need to grieve, just as they would if they had lost a loved one. This is especially true of the solid, stable employee who has worked in one place for many years. "That person has a mental contract," says Maury Elvekrog, a management psychologist in Birmingham, Mich. "Even though no one told him that he would be taken care of, that's what he expected...
...have a chance to bring their blood sugar back to normal by dropping a modest amount of weight. But not many succeed. Even more than Type I, Type II diabetes appears to run in families. If both parents develop the disease before middle adulthood, the chance a child will contract it runs close to 80%. Diabetes is endemic among many American Indian tribes, notably the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, who have the highest incidence of Type II diabetes in the world (50% of those over...
...Parsons, a subsidiary of Northern Engineering Industries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, employees have abandoned work on what should have been one of their most lucrative projects in recent years, a $150 million contract to build four turbine generators for a power station at Al Shemal, 240 miles north of Baghdad. Playing its small part in the worldwide sanctions against Iraq, the firm has announced layoffs of 650 workers. Near Beasley, Texas, Jack Wendt, who farms 1,500 acres of rice and grain, calculates that he will earn $72,000 less than in 1989 because of the sudden disappearance...