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...part because of an improved housing market, the gains were offset by a drop in manufacturing employment.Concerns about a contraction in manufacturing were presaged in the Institute for Supply Management's monthly manufacturing index released earlier this...
...slow-walking the applications for tax-exempt status by journalism groups emerging to fill the void left by the dramatic contraction of the news media.Until 2007, approval of applications for nonprofit investigative news centers took an average of three...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Baseball's contraction plan folded. All the teams are staying...could then turn to other candidates for contraction, such as Tampa Bay, Florida, Oakland...have required us to move the date of contraction to 2003," Selig said. His announcement...
...months ahead of baseball's failed contraction decision. Team officials and lawyers discussed contraction among themselves and with Minnesota...them, including notes indicating that contraction was discussed several months before...
...negotiating Friday night for a no-contraction pledge for the 2002 season, sources...declining to be more specific. If a no-contraction pledge is reached, a possible move...be no relocation of franchises before contraction occurs. He has said previously he cannot...
...candidates. The players' union claims the contraction vote violated the terms of their labor...obligated to negotiate with us over contraction, and they don't feel they are...to fight it." Players don't want contraction to be the overriding focus of their...
...Baseball management, its plans for contraction all but over, told the players' association...teams, but did not identify them. But contraction has been on hold since Nov. 16, when...workouts. Selig has maintained that contraction is theoretically possible any time before...
...days ago, commissioner Bud Selig put contraction aside, and the Minnesota Twins finally...year. "If Selig would have talked contraction in '99 or 2000 or whatever, when we...bright young stars, the prospect of contraction was hard to swallow. And they did their...
...next season. Owners say that their contraction plan is the first step toward creating...economic ills, owners could recoup contraction costs years from now by adding two teams...rights?" Selig does not consider the contraction plan a panacea, instead calling it...
...The T-shirts' message: "From Contraction to Champions." Even if, as widely...the now-diminished possibility of contraction. Although the Twins are tired of talking...reached on Aug. 30 set a moratorium on contraction through the 2006 season, rolling a...