Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There was some concern for the future, however. A Liverpool record-store owner named Brian Epstein thought he might be able to lend a hand there. He signed on as the group's manager in 1961. By the end of the following year. boys got their first record contract and their first producer, George Martin, who remained aboard for the crazy cruise that came to be called Beatlemania. There was one final change of personnel: Drummer Pete Best was replaced by a gentleman named Richard Starkey, who favored quantities of heavy jewelry, most of it worn on the digits...
Carol Cohen, director of public affairs for UMass, said yesterday the two parties will hold three negotiating sessions before Christmas. But resolution of the contract dispute is unlikely before next year, Cohen added, because "there are still too many issues on the table...
...administration "can't afford" the extra half-time salaries, Cohen said, adding that in light of proposed state cuts in UMass's budget, it would be "better for everyone" if the union agreed to a contract quickly...
...university is trying to change the "traditional faculty role" as decision-makers by taking away their power in hiring, promoting and tenuring professors, d'Errico said. The stalled contract talks are partially due to "ineptness of the president's office," he added. "The president is trying to make all the decisions himself," d'Errico said...
Union officials have scheduled another protest for February 4, the first day of second-semester classes, if the contract has not been settled...