Word: contracting
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...from "Just do it!" to "Just do it our way, or else!" In a disturbing display of industrial and financial power, Nike Chair Phil Knight recently reneged on a promised $30 million donation to the University of Oregon, and the company cancelled a multi-year, multi-million dollar apparel contract with the University of Michigan. The reason: both schools are affiliated with the human rights monitoring group the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). Nike, a member of the Fair Labor Association (FLA)--a monitoring group backed by the government, several apparel manufacturers and 134 universities, including Harvard--accuses...
...newly tenured professor, Selzter has to renegotiate her contract, and may field offers from other schools...
According to Rosenberg, their demands included an examination of the IDM contract and a four-way meeting, with the Coop, IDM, the Bow owners and Save the Bow campaign members all attending...
...have argued in the past that the death penalty was justified, in certain brutal cases, on the basis of the social contract. That is: Some hideous crimes demand the ultimate punishment in order to satisfy the essentially civilizing deal that we make with one another as citizens. We forgo individual revenge, deferring to the law, but depend upon a certainty that the law will give us a justice that must include appropriate harshness. I favored the Texas folk wisdom: "He needs killing." If the law fails in that task, I said, and people see that evil is fecklessly tolerated, then...
...control over cable outlets in several major markets across the country, including the viewer-rich New York City area - and Disney, which owns ABC and several other networks, such as ESPN, have been involved in a spitting contest for the last four months, ever since their latest long-term contract expired. According to reports, Disney, whose confidence has been boosted by the spectacular success of shows like "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," wants Time Warner to agree to carry several Disney networks, including the heretofore premium Disney Channel, on its basic cable transmissions. For its part, Time Warner...