Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...painful blisters on the hoof, tongue and inside of the mouth-it strikes fiercely at dairy cattle, sharply reducing their milk production and afflicting them with sterility, heart trouble and chronic lameness. Produced by a virus, the disease is rampantly contagious, can be carried by humans (who very rarely contract it), birds, wild animals, frozen meat and even the wind. To combat its dread effects, Britain's Ministry of Agriculture has adopted a Draconian policy: the slaughter of an entire herd if even one animal has been stricken. Since the current outbreak began in early November, Ministry of Agriculture...
...Coast's Harvey Aluminum Inc. noticed a story that a competitor was about to make a big sale of aluminum to a new customer. With only 2% of U.S. aluminum output, Lawrence Harvey has to scramble fast to compete against the giants. He grabbed his telephone, learned the contract had indeed been agreed upon, but was not yet signed. He summoned a family conference in the company's executive suite: Father Leo M. Harvey, 75, company president; Uncle Herbert Harvey, 65, engineering vice president; and Brother Homer M. Harvey, 36, administrative vice president. Together they quickly decided what...
Specifically, the jury found Hulan Jack guilty of 1) permitting one Sidney J. Ungar, a tenement tycoon and real estate speculator, to foot the $4,400 bill for decorating Jack's Harlem apartment at a time when Ungar was eagerly seeking a $30 million slum-clearance contract from the city, and 2) later conspiring with Sydney Ungar to conceal the facts from the law. An earlier trial had resulted in a hung jury...
Sasaki pointed out that neither he nor Adleman have as yet signed a definite contract with the University. Nor have they submitted sketches or approximate prices for consideration, he added...
...Connecticut romp, nearly everybody got into the scoring act. Donovan paced the Eagles with 28, followed by Hooley with 25, Ward with 18, Foley with 10, and Quinn with nine. In contract, no Crimson performer has yet reached the 20-point mark this season...