Sunrise, which is based in McLean, Va., is expanding by selling its properties while retaining contracts to manage them to raise cash for the development of new communities.
"Sponsors can feel a little better about retaining contracts".
The series was not picked up by ABC for the Fall 1977 TV season but Lorimar Productions retained contract options on the actors for the rest of the year and Lorimar kept on trying to sell the show to ABC.
Players Retain Contract The N.H.L. Players Associationn's 30 team representatives voted unanimously on Thursday against terminating the collective bargaining agreement that ended an 18-month lockout in July 2005.
The survival of such groups is imperilled by their growing failure to win or retain service contracts, however.
It would eliminate a rule that obliges companies to retain old contracts if negotiations fail, a change that would prohibit union leaders from protecting anachronistic work rules by refusing to negotiate in good faith.
One lawmaker, Assemblywoman Gloria Davis of the Bronx, admitted in a Manhattan court that she accepted transportation from the company in the late 1990's in return for helping it retain state contracts.
The commission stood by its provisional decision in September to retain the contracts rights renewal system, which controls ITV1's advertising rates to stop the broadcaster abusing its dominant position in the market.
