Word: contracts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...MP3.com, at least, always wanted to be more than that, namely a mini-record label with minimal marketing costs. That's how Byrds founder Roger McGuinn was offered "an unheard-of, non-exclusive recording contract with a royalty rate of 50 percent of the gross sales," McGuinn told the committee in defense of the web music revolution. "I was delighted by this youthful and uncommonly fair approach...
...HEWITT At 77, 60 Minutes man re-ups with new contract. We love ya, despite that Wigand thing...
...report is very sobering," says Dr. Peter Piot, who directed the study. Today five young people contract HIV/AIDS somewhere in the world every minute. At highest risk are African women ages 15 to 24; they are two to three times as likely as young men to be HIV positive, owing to their having sex with older male partners--a heavily infected population in Africa...
...When his contract runs out in a month, Thorsen will hardly be the only dotcom refugee standing in line. Nor will he be the only one cursing his valueless options. This has always been a highly volatile industry, but recent events have been on the scale of a virtual earthquake. Here's a sample of the casualty list for just two days last week: More than a third of Seattle-based Hardware.com's workers went under the hammer. Furniture.com in Framingham, Mass., laid off 80 employees--that's 41% of its work force. Streaming video site Pseudo.com axed 58 jobs...
After reading your health-care story "Curing Managed Care" [BUSINESS, June 12], I wondered what would happen if we "providers" had the courage to write the insurance companies and tell them we will no longer be managed-care contract providers? I'm for it if my colleagues will join me! GARY M. GORLICK, M.D. Los Angeles...