Word: contracting
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Controversy over the high school reorganization comes as union members enter the sixth month of work without a contract. Initially, the two sides planned to talk about CRLS-related issues at a later date, separate from the main contract. But the main contract talks continue to drag on, under a mediator's watch...
...turn in its warm glow, as if the boom were an achievement of the Clinton administration; while George W. Bush, for his part, uses it to sell his own supply-side tax cuts by claiming the expansion as a product of Reagan-era tax policies. But economies expand and contract according to their own rules - yes, folks, even Alan Greenspan himself would tell you that his job is closer to that of a janitor than of an architect - and aren't easily swayed to the whims of politicians. Although most candidates are quite happy to discuss how to spend...
...donation from rich German party supporters? Or possibly a payoff from foreign businessmen? Andre Guelfi, a French businessman known as Dede the Sardine because of his ownership of a now defunct Moroccan fishing company, said he helped pass more than $40 million to the C.D.U. to help secure a contract for a German-French joint venture. He has since backtracked on many of his accusations, which are being investigated by French and Swiss justice officials...
...BUSINESSMAN: Frenchman Andre Guelfi, 80, nicknamed Dede the Sardine, said he gave C.D.U. officials nearly $40 million to help win a contract...
...largest bank, announced Tuesday that it will no longer sell information about its customers' finances to telemarketers, and won't release any information at all without written consent. It wasn't an entirely selfless move - New York attorney general Elliot Spitzer, who accused Chase of violating the self-imposed contract terms of its new accounts, nudged the bank into reform...