Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haakonsen also does not like the way the Olympic snowboarders are being turned into uniform-wearing team members. Like tennis and golf, snowboarding has functioned with independently contracted athletes enjoying, in some cases, six-figure contracts. At competitions, snowboarders are usually adorned with various sponsors' logos. Within the Olympic system, competitors must wear officially sanctioned uniforms provided by a contracted supplier. Mark Fawcett, Canada's dominant giant-slalom racer, who draws a good portion of his income from Fila, must suspend that contract to advertise Nike, official sponsor of the Canadian team. At one point, Fawcett was so frustrated...
...would be unfortunate if this case only deepened the cynicism that many Americans already feel toward political life. The contract that exists between the populace and the federal government--a covenant that has sustained this nation through good times and bad--must endure despite the character flaws of specific individuals...
Welcome to Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain east of the Philippines. And, yes, it has been a U.S. territory since the end of World War II. Li Li is one of 40,000 foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth...
Abuses of contract workers are widespread. A recent scam involved offering Bangladeshis jobs supposedly paying $1,000 a month as security guards on Saipan (shamelessly described as "a train ride away from Los Angeles"). A $6,000 recruitment fee was demanded. "When we arrived here, suddenly there was no job," says Mohamed Feroj Ahmed, one of more than 100 Bangladeshis who wander the island, indebted but unable to find more than day labor. When told of the Bangladeshis' plight, Congressman Miller said, "How low do you have to get to rip off a Bangladeshi...
...Takes On Encryption One of the architects of the Contract With America leads the charge against giving the government the keys to unlock your e-mail. Netly News: Software Money