Word: contracting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...compare that to what awaits those lottery picks in their first year of the NBA. It must be a bittersweet feeling to earn a multi-million dollar contract while realizing that you must spend the next three years of your life playing for the Golden State Warriors or the LA Clippers...
...Juwan Howard, he earned a $15 million contract with the Washington Wizards a few years ago. Since then he has been booed every night by the fans, who know that he isn't worth his salary. Howard's absurd contract has prevented Washington from trading him and building up any other talent...
...been two years since I bought--and set aside--my first cell phone. The horrid device in question was a bottom-of-the-line Ericsson that looked as if it had been designed in Stalinist Russia. I got it free with a one-year service contract. Sadly, phone, service (AT&T Wireless) and contract conspired against me. Either the Ericsson, which carried a battery charge for a good half-hour or so, was out of juice or I was in one of the many dead spots that appeared to plague my mobile life. After three months of this, I stopped...
James Nachtwey, a contract photographer for TIME and one of the best-known photojournalists of the past 20 years, works along those edges. His passport has been stamped in some of the most chaotic spots of the postwar era--Northern Ireland, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Lebanon, Afghanistan--places where history always seems to finish its work in a room where there is human waste spilled across the concrete floor and blood smeared on the wall and the bare light bulb of reason is not much help or comfort...
...moment every independent band in the world has waited for--heartening proof that in the age of digital music and the Internet, tyrannical major record labels have become as last year as Ricky Martin? Not quite. "There isn't an artist anywhere who, if they could get a good contract, wouldn't take it," Wasserman says. Indeed, last month they inked a deal with Jimmy and Doug's Farm Club, a new subsidiary of Universal Music named after Interscope co-chairman Jimmy Iovine and Universal head Doug Morris. Wasserman hasn't made an album on the label...