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...cuts can be even less kind. For Deborah Holmes, the principal at Jefferson Junior High School, just a few blocks southwest of the U.S. Capitol, the choice was between buying more computers and doing something to raise her students' scores. In the end, Holmes opted for a $21,000 contract with The Princeton Review, reasoning that her students would become more computer literate by spending much of their time taking online practice exams. "We'll buy the computers another year," she sighs...
...chief political brain, the Texan, 51, delights in crafting a message or staging a presidential visit that doesn't just score a political point but also plays to several constituencies at once. So when it was reported in the New York Times that Rove might have steered an Enron contract to Ralph Reed, a G.O.P. kingmaker whose support Rove needed, the political elite in Washington, which includes some longtime enemies, thought that just might be his kind of pool...
...dumping manufacturing and distribution operations or rolling them into joint ventures with other labels. Poor performing artists aren?t secure, either, including such legends as Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney. Last month, EMI gave pop diva Mariah Carey a $28 million payoff to free itself from the $80 million contract it signed her to last year. Carey, whose 1993 album Music Box sold 24 million copies, could only generate sales of 2 million for her first and only EMI release, Glitter, which left the label $10 million in the hole...
Saenz said she expects the contract negotiated by SEIU to set a precedent. Following the SEIU negotiations, the University will reopen the contracts of the service workers, dining hall employees and guards...
According to Summers’ statement, the University plans to compile a report outlining the results of the contract negotiations this spring and will update the committee on its progress...