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...BARKER celebrated his 30th anniversary as host of The Price is Right last week by signing a five-year contract extension. "I signed a five-year contract last time, and I didn't think I'd finish it," says Barker. "My brother said, 'By the time you finish this one, you'll be 104!'" Barker, actually 77, is still taping new shows four days a week, knocking down 86% of his putts in the Golf Game and rooking poor innocents on the infernal Plinko board. "That's not true. Yesterday I had the all-time winner on Plinko...
...market to upgrade its technology can do so for a fraction of what it would have paid just eight months ago. Robert H. Wager Co., a firm in Rural Hall, N.C., that makes high-tech smoke detectors, was days away from defaulting on a $200,000 contract because of a shortage of critical semiconductors. A two-month search turned up one supplier with a 14-day lead time. Five minutes on VCE turned up supplies that could be delivered immediately. "We're deliriously happy," says sales director Christine Timchek. Similarly, Texatronics, a contract manufacturer of printed circuit boards in Richardson...
...seen rising circulation since Bailey inherited the post in 1996 from BONNIE FULLER, who two weeks ago was asked to resign as editor of Glamour, where she spiced things up with more stories about sex but angered her bosses when she unsuccessfully tried to get out of her contract to take the top job at Bazaar, which Betts got instead. Still with us? The top Glamour job will now go to CINDI LEIVE, editor of Self magazine, while Betts and Fuller, two of the fashion-mag world's once-bright stars, look for work...
...result of the agreement with which the student protesters exited Mass. Hall, SEIU? contract will be reopened a year early?nd the contract that is eventually negotiated will be retroactive to May 1 of this year...
...Price says she thinks that, without PSLM, the recently negotiated Local 26 contract would have been identical...