As I learned about the two immense contracts signed by Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez ("A Slugging Shortstop to Get $252 Million," Dec. 11), I was deeply dismayed.
Borys Althusser, wealthy young manufacturer of sensitive electronic instruments, for which he has immense govt. contracts, discovers one evening that something has come between himself and his beautiful wife Evelyn.
The New Yorker, May 1 , 1971P. 42 Borys Althusser, wealthy young manufacturer of sensitive electronic instruments, for which he has immense govt. contracts, discovers one evening that something has come between himself and his beautiful wife Evelyn.
By Donald Barthelme The New Yorker, May 1 , 1971P. 42 Borys Althusser, wealthy young manufacturer of sensitive electronic instruments, for which he has immense govt. contracts, discovers one evening that something has come between himself and his beautiful wife Evelyn.
In 1998, Dr. Marburger became director of Brookhaven, an immense research laboratory operated under contract with the government.
Such contracts are of immense importance to the world economy, forming the legal structure of the arterial traffic of the oceans.
Such projects are rare, and construction work is erratic, so politicians with contracts to award have immense leverage.
As a mammoth star contracts under its own immense gravity, it heats up, causing runaway nuclear reactions that send jets of matter streaming out at millions of kilometers per hour.
There are immense tradeoffs, and there is no social contract regarding those tradeoffs.
The president of the state teachers' union, Andy Ford, argued that the pressure on children "will be immense when the teacher's salary evaluation, contract and certification are all tied to that score".
