Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gang's power to terrorize was slipping. One gangster claimed to have taken out a $3,000 "contract," which came to nothing; another pointed a pistol at the Rodriguez home -- but was arrested. "Despite all the bad things that have happened, I still believe in the system," says the amazingly resilient Rodriguez. "I actually look forward to the neighborhood getting cleaned...
...time travel? Why not simply write a novel about the 1869 Red Stockings? (Yes, they were a real, nearly unbeatable team who were the first baseball professionals to be paid openly, by contract, and who campaigned to both the East and West coasts that year.) The reader does not really ask these questions, because the narrative moves with such cheerful confidence that doubt does not arise. But a couple of advantages work powerfully in favor of the author's device. Fowler, having a thin time of it in the 20th century, is plunked into a situation in which his only...
...been a frustrating year for many couples at Harvard, but that could change if the Undergraduate Council succeeds in negotiating a contract to restock the University's empty condom dispensers...
Although no final agreement has been struck, council member Farshid Sadeghi '90 said he had located a new distributor for the prophylactic devices, and that he simply needed the council to approve a contract...
...light last December, when Mary Cartwright, personnel director for the Hoosier Lottery, accused her boss, Jack Crawford, of sexual harassment and he was forced to resign. Out of concern for the couple's privacy, Governor Evan Bayh initially kept a lid on embarrassing documents Cartwright presented: a handwritten contract in which Crawford promised to pay Cartwright $125 a week and a pledge to promote her to lottery director if he ever became Governor. But Bayh made the documents public two weeks ago, after Crawford indicated he might run for prosecutor of Marion County and Cartwright charged that a state trooper...