Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Federal Aviation Administration play fair when the company won a $3.6 billion contract to upgrade the computers in the U.S. air-traffic- control system? No way, according to losing bidder Hughes Aircraft, which last week persuaded the General Services Administration to suspend the contract pending an investigation...
...eliminated a normal fall TV season, thus threatening to reduce the networks' audience even further. The writers are expected to return to work this week, having won partial concessions on the two key economic issues -- their share of sales abroad and in U.S. syndicated reruns -- plus contract language that may enhance their creative control when scripts are being readied for production or when they languish unmade. But even with the typewriters and word processors clattering again, most returning series will need at least six to eight weeks to gear up before shooting starts; new shows may require more. Because editing...
Union workers at Harvard either workindependently or are hired by ISS Energy Systems,which has a maintenance contract with Harvard...
Besides the apparent mental hazards, Woods says performing can be risky as a career because of the inherent uncertainty. In light of Rick Berlin's long-standing difficulties in acquiring a major-label recording contract, Woods says she would advise prospective musicians, "Get some training, and get a regular job. You don't want to do this. I would wish this on somebody I don't like...
Compliance will not be easy. Merchant fleets dump at least 450,000 plastic containers overboard every day. The U.S. Navy, which accounts for four tons of plastic daily, has canceled a contract for 11 million plastic shopping bags, and is testing a shipboard trash compactor. It is also developing a waste processor that can melt plastics and turn them into bricks. The Navy's projected cost of meeting the treaty provision: at least $1 million a ship. Supporters of the Marpol treaty readily acknowledge that it will not totally eliminate plastic pollution. "If a guy goes out on deck late...