One opinion regarding long term contracts with significant dollar amounts tied to them pertains to the theory that general managers and executives will be relieved of their duties at some point by the ball club prior to the conclusion of the contract in question.
The timbermen's frustration reached boiling point last October, when members of the Associated Contract Loggers took the advice of a Twin Cities lawyer, Stephen Young, and filed suit against environmentalists and the Forest Service.
One copy editor on contract even went out of her way to point out that her duties were identical to those of an AOL News staffer who was recently laid off.
Among the revealing tidbits: Kilar has thrown down the gauntlet before, allegedly claiming he would leave the company when his contract expired unless subscriber fees were lowered to a price-point appealing enough for potential users of Hulu Plus, rather than simply the increasingly-threatened owners of it.