Motsepe's first sizable contract: Sweeping a marginally productive mine in the town of Orkney, owned by a division of 90-year-old mining behemoth Anglo American.
There will also be sweeping changes to contracts for any new employees, with diminished terms and conditions, including alterations to maternity leave.
See articleEcuador's government joined the wave of oil nationalism sweeping Latin America, ending a contract with Occidental, an American oil company that is the largest foreign investor in the country.
Without any real backing from her peers, she has illustrated the need to tackle the bizarre work practices in the city's schools.Who would have known, for instance, that a caretaker could refuse to vacuum rugs because his union's contract mentions only sweeping and mopping?
John Biggins, an actor and friend of Phillips since boyhood in Leeds, recalls how he "walked out of sweeping floors at Edinburgh with contracts to write plays.
His responsibilities include washing dirty jerseys, negotiating salary contracts with agents, sweeping the court before games, selling tickets and teaching 12 young men what he knows about playing in the N.B.A. "I run my practice geared toward what I know the pros will be looking at," Charles said.
United Airlines' flight attendants gave sweeping approval today to $412 million in contract concessions.
"Ah, contracts," he says, eyes pointedly sweeping to take in my ringed left hand.
It was a time of sweeping political declarations -- remember Newt Gingrich and his Contract With America?
[Page A8.] Mr. Berlusconi's contract with Italians was the kind of sweeping gesture that makes the Italian intelligentsia cringe.
The mounting aggression and alienation is fraying India's social contract and a wave of anger and despondency is sweeping across this country, where, given 50percentt of the population is less than 25 years old, pessimism should be an impossibility.
