Word: contracts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...shake their heads when I explain my decision to back the boys from Queens. Why not root for the Yankees? All that history! All those championships! All that money! But I'll stand firm. Joe Torre seems like a nice guy, but I find Bobby Valentine (and all his contract woes) even more winning. I named my cat after Bernie Williams, but I adore Mike Piazza. And in the end, I can't stand the idea of George Steinbrenner...
...skip and breast implant away. As the youngest member of BreZe, a pre-teen pop-music foursome dubbed the Spice Babies (their combined age is 41), Phylicia already has Bill Kimber (who discovered Eurythmics) as her manager, as well as a share of a $1.5 million contract with Warner Brothers. She's tipped to be the biggest thing in pre-teen pop since Aaron Carter, little brother of the Backstreet Boy Nick Carter...
Springer said yesterday he won't run for office in the next several years--at least the time it takes for his contract to expire...
Meanwhile, private carriers from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Germany, are battling for a bigger piece of the delivery pie, forcing the Postal Service to contract with the likes of DHL and Emery Worldwide just to maintain its global reach. Although still delivering 40% of the world's mail, the men and women in blue just can't seem to keep pace. Says Representative John McHugh, a New York Republican, whose postal-reform bill has been stuck in congressional limbo for six years: "The postal system is heading toward a disaster of tremendous consequences...
...have higher ambitions than royalty. Like sainthood. Claiming that she's "sick of all the crap" that goes along with being host of a daytime talk show, O'Donnell tells the November issue of Ladies' Home Journal that she plans to quit her highly profitable show when her contract runs out in 2002 so that she can concentrate on facilitating adoptions. O'Donnell, who has four adopted tykes of her own, recently opened a Rosie Adoptions office in New Jersey, and she already claims responsibility for 39 adoptions, including one for former Charlie's Angels star Kate Jackson. Says Jackson...