Word: contracting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fellow swimmer Paula Barila Bolopa, who swam the 50-m in 1:03.97, doubling the second worst time, had received money to be interviewed by Australian papers. And Moussambani had already turned down an ad campaign. "Speedo offered to sponsor me, but I didn't like the contract," he said, eating baked Alaska as the waitress came over with a stack of menus to be signed. "Michael Johnson was here two days ago, and we didn't ask for his autograph," she said. After signing, the team stopped for some photo ops with diners, then headed back to the Olympic...
...beyond the strikers and their employers. Producers and casting directors are trying to conduct business as usual, especially as the normally flush season for shooting Christmas and Super Bowl spots begins. But New York's major commercial agents are not showing off their Crest smiles. Signatories to the SAG contract, they cannot work on non-union projects. That leaves them with something they hate to do: nothing. "You see me spending all this time talking to you on the phone?" barks one top commercial agent, who sounds as if he could have hired himself from Central Casting. "That's 'cause...
...happy to cash in, pressure by conservative advocacy groups on major corporations such as Time Warner (parent company of TIME.com) resulted in the industry backing away from promoting gangsta rap. "Hip-Hop Nation" includes original correspondence detailing efforts by Ice-T to be released from his Warner Brothers contract after the corporation had sought to curb certain lyrics...
Hoping to engage and enrage everyday travelers, print and television outlets told horror stories of how a contract dispute among United Airlines pilots was wreaking havoc with business and pleasure flyers alike. Those reports were most often followed by warnings that the U.S. aviation industry--currently being pushed to its operational limits--could only get worse from here...
...course, it is only a doomsday scenario, one that may seem "X-treme" in its own right. But given the exposure that the league will get via its contract with NBC, the local support that the franchises in smaller markets like Orlando and Birmingham will receive and astounding popularity of wrestling and McMahon himself, it is unlikely that the XFL can do anything but succeed...