Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...matters of justice, women are less concerned about abstract rights or wrongs and more interested in finding compromises that maintain the social contract. In her provocative 1982 book In a Different Voice, Gilligan offered an example. A boy and a girl, both 11, were asked whether a poor man should steal a drug that would save his wife's life. Yes, said the boy, because human life is worth more than property. No, said the girl, who suggested that he borrow the money or work out a payment schedule with the druggist. Her reasoning: If the man stole, he might...
...proposed law would place restrictions on the state's use of consultants. It would place various limits on the amount of profit, overhead charges and expenses that the state could pay consultants. It would limit the duration of consultant contracts to two years and any extension to one year, and it would limit the degree to which such contracts could be changed to require payments in excess of the original contract. The proposed law would limit to $100,000 the amount the state could pay on a consultant contract with an individual and would require all other consultant contracts...
...Yorkers accept cuts in city services. "We have no choice but to make our local government fit the size of our local economy," he said. "We must all bear our share of the pain." Local Teamsters president Barry Feinstein suspects less noble motives. He says the mayor, facing delicate contract talks with his organization and another major municipal labor union, is simply trying "to make a case that there is no money available for a wage increase...
...Parretti raised cash for the deal by tapping European companies he controls and selling rights to movies controlled by Pathe and MGM/UA. Time Warner agreed to pay $125 million for home-video rights to the 1,700 films in the studios' library. Time Warner, which dropped a breach-of- contract suit that it had filed earlier against Parretti, also bought home- video rights to 11 current and forthcoming movies, including Quigley Down Under and Rocky...
...ship as much as $60 million in goods. "Software companies have to protect themselves," says Logisticon president Don Gallagher. Revlon says it refuses to pay because the program has failed to perform as promised. The company sued Logisticon last week in California state court for trespassing and breach of contract, calling the repossession "a form of commercial terrorism...