The asset value of the team would soar with LeBron under contract along with cost certainty to his earnings without any need for negotiation of his contract!

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The clock was ticking down to its last minutes of the Drew Brees contract negotiation, a process that had dragged on for several months.

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The bill also imposes a compulsory arbitration regime that results in an automatic two-year union "contract" after 130 days of failed negotiation.

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The Mets may or may not sign Michael Bourn, but in their dealings with the center fielder, they've at least given baseball something new: the vaguely public contract negotiation as impenetrable art, along the lines of language poetry.

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For example, the new job contract just agreed by the unions and employers after months of negotiation will enable employers to shed workers without the risk of going to a labour tribunal, but only at the price of higher pay-offs.

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