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I take pride in putting together contracts and providing a full range of services. I tell all my members, 'Distinguish yourself with services.' I'm not worried about it at all.

I think it does show us that we were wise not to offer any national contracts to spin bowlers this year. They have all upped their level of performance, which has been encouraging.

I think that he was able to keep labor peace for two decades, which allowed us to get media contracts that are the highest of any sport anywhere in the world.

It is probably the most unethical and dishonorable thing I've ever seen done here. I find it absolutely ironic that an organization that is set up to protect the contracts of its members would make a decision to turn around and declare null and void the contract it signed with its employee.

It is probable that most contracts are not renewed at Yale, ... There's no assumption of moving on down the line, for example there's no assumption of tenure. That's how it is.

I think what's striking here with both of these companies is that neither of them had any track record of supporting Jim Doyle until they got state business. It certainly creates suspicion about the decision to give these contracts to these companies.

It is not surprising that public officials in Louisiana are trying everything they can to recover dollars for those whose lives were devastated by Hurricane Katrina. But insurance contracts are contracts.

It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.

It is important that we move quickly because this is the stage of the season when people either sign new contracts or move on. Gareth will provide me with a list of names and it is then a matter of ticking the boxes.

Last year, I needed 10 people working full-time for a month doing 2005 contracts and setting up audits for our corporate customers. This year, I have one person updating the files in a day.

Over the longer term, the commercial contracts are going to be more lucrative and larger, but over the short term there is some softness in the market.

Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

Our union has contracts with more than 300 different employers, and it is easy to say the least turnover, the most stability, the most worker satisfaction is with Kaiser Permanente, without a doubt.

Our clients remained pretty active hedging last year. Since they had so many hedge contracts in place, their credit lines were full, and they wanted to do more but couldn't.

Our 2005 salesperson of the year award winners have brought great value to Choice as a result of their efforts. The franchise sales team had another record-breaking year with 639 executed contracts in 2005, continuing our pattern of record growth from 2004 and establishing a standard by which we will measure 2006.

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Parliament could revisit the Unfair Contracts Act . Consumers are finding that they can't get digital content without signing an end user agreement whose terms and conditions are ridiculous.

Some people are looking at breakevens that are lower than feeder contract prices. The summer contracts are beginning to soften, but there have been opportunities to hedge them for a reasonable margin.

I think Linus would've liked to stay on with the team next year, but I don't feel it would be feasible for us to invest a lot of time and effort in a young talent who's already got one foot out the door. We gave him a contract offer for 2007 and 2008, but another team out-bid us. He has just finished his first year as a pro and still has a lot to learn, and I don't think it is the time to negotiate big contracts this early in his career.

I think the teams are to blame. They start out by giving guys out of high school millions of dollars and contracts that guarantee they'll be in the big leagues by a certain time. Then they coddle them all the way through the system. They get used to having things given to them rather than having earned them.

The advantage we have is, away from the city, we're talking to real people. We talk to farmers about hedging and forward contracts concerning oil and currencies and that reminds us that there are real people using the markets. In London, you don't see your neighbors for dust.

That's the kind of game that All-Stars need to play like All-Stars and guys playing for contracts need to play like they want to get paid. That's how we played. I thought our effort was outstanding the whole time.

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Most contracts should be easy to understand and written at an eighth grade level.

Most coaches' contracts have termination provisions, both with and without cause. In the 'without cause' situation, there's an amount the coach is entitled to under contract. That can be clear, or it can be interpreted in different manners -- and what's clear to us is not clear to (Cincinnati), and they say vice versa.

Why, when the auditor-general condemned this practice in the sponsorship scandal, does this government still award contracts with no proper audit paper trail?

Will they come back for more money? Will they merge? Will they sell? ... Those are issues that will remain. Getting all the contracts ratified is the first baby step toward saving the airline. But they don't know the future.

We continue to mitigate record-high jet fuel prices with our successful hedging program, which resulted in a $295-million benefit from settled contracts in third quarter 2005.

We continue to have serious dialogue with Notre Dame regarding a game next season, but at this time, there is no agreement in place. We hope to have an announcement regarding the situation soon, but final contracts have yet to be signed.

We can't do much of anything. We don't know what we're working with. Until that's defined, it seems like an exercise in futility. On the plus side, it gives us a chance to put more of our time and energy into football and known quantities instead of contracts when you don't know what the system is.

We have taken all necessary measures to supply Europe with gas according to contracts. By tomorrow evening, full supply to Europe in accordance with these contracts will be restored.

We do not encounter lobbyists trying to entice us to sign huge contracts for goods or services.

We estimate the assumption of these contracts by Tennessee Tire Recyclers and the pending closure of our Tennessee facility in September will relieve us of obligations that have negatively contributed to our operating losses over the past several years and will positively impact our overall corporate cash flow by over $150,000 per month. We anticipate the transition of assigning all contracts to be completed within 90 days and will redeploy all remaining Tennessee equipment to other locations during that timeframe.

We must reiterate that the Principles are published as a discussion document and as an aide for clients and contractors alongside their in-house standard contracts and industry published standard contracts. Each IMCA member is, of course, free to negotiate their own terms, qualify such contracts and to make use of the Principles should it wish to do so in order to achieve a contract satisfactory to both parties.

We have worked well with Iowa, but if any one Republican leader had called me two weeks ago, I would have told them our tentative date is Feb. 8, but it's not final and I wouldn't be signing contracts with anybody just yet,

We can accommodate all of the corporate jets out there. The market for an airport like this is the commercial passenger planes, commercial freight and also general aviation - usually piston-engine aircraft and jet traffic. We also have several military contracts with (United States) Customs, (the Department of) Homeland Security and all branches of the armed services.

Those contracts were entered into when Microsoft had single-digit usage figures for browser software. Microsoft's contracts are not only completely unobjectionable, but pro-competitive because it reduced Netscape's dominance and gave consumers more choice.

Those contracts are usually about the worth of the ink they're written in (though).

Those are some of the players we have discussed offering multiyear contracts to.

We are doing some final work on them. Basically, the new contract will be starting up (in the summer) as the two existing contracts are winding down.

We are delighted to partner with the Amex to bring DBC to the U.S. marketplace, providing institutional and retail clients unprecedented access to the commodities market. DBC will provide investors systematic exposure to commodities without the complication and difficulty of investing directly in futures contracts or in the physical commodities themselves.

To gut our contracts when you don't know what the future fleet plan is going to be is irresponsible.

The pins allow rotation of the bridge at the bearing areas. The need for rotation is mainly derived from the fact that steel expands and contracts with temperature variations. When the temperature warms, the bridge naturally expands, or lengthens longitudinally, and unless it's allowed to do so, undesired stresses are introduced to the structure.

We plan to finalize award of blocks to successful bidders by Nov. 15 and sign production sharing contracts with them by Jan. 15 next year.

We agreed to do a variety if things in the community, ... in addition to the tens of millions of dollars that had been allocated to contracts for local vendors in the development of the new ballpark.

We recognize the importance of providing relief and rebuilding in the communities in the disaster area, but it is totally unnecessary to undermine the affirmative action requirements of new federal contracts that are designed to provide equal opportunity in accomplishing these vital tasks.

The prospect of favorable new energy contracts for PPL as existing long-term contracts expire, in conjunction with sharp increases in forward wholesale energy prices over the past six months, led us to increase our long-term earnings forecast.

Trading in future contracts led the market today, with bullish sentiment there gradually spreading to cash bonds. This is probably because some investors took heart from a pullback in the equity market here.

We delivered another strong performance in the first three months of 2006 as our average daily volume exceeded two million contracts for the second consecutive quarter. The double digit growth in our core options business fueled a 40% increase in net income once again reflecting the operating leverage that is inherent in our business. We also continued to post strong cash flow which we now share with our stockholders by virtue of the implementation of the dividend policy that we announced last year.

We worked through the government scandals and closed a few contracts in the fourth quarter of 2004.

We want to make sure agencies have processes and procedures in place to ensure contracts are performed as required. Things can slip through the cracks.

We are making good progress with each of the bargaining units. The administration's top priority is good contracts with good working conditions for all our employees. We need to get through this and get on with the business of running the college. I believe people are becoming aware that we will all need to work as a team to weather the budgetary crisis.

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

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Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

God helps those who have no-cut contracts.

The contracts were signed when a barrel of oil cost 18.0 or 19.0 dollars, whereas nowadays a barrel is more than 60.0 dollars.

The contracts vary depending on the size of the school but can generate as much as $100,000 in supplemental revenue for a large school.

The contracts (that were) pulled and plagued with problems in other states are not a recent phenomena.

The contracts have already been let, and the work is under way.

The contracts at issue settled disputes with individual wholesale customers. Qwest does not believe that these agreements were required to be filed, but because this is a question that has not been previously clarified, we've asked the FCC to confirm our interpretation.

The contracts are held by the league. When we reach that stage it will be a decision in the best interests of the league and all parties including Freddy and DC United.

The contracts are all done, now it's just a matter of logistics,

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

Any relationship that you have is about negotiation - anything - whether there is a written contract or not.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

The late 1990s were good to me. I was doing the Lottery, GMTV and I had a good contract with ITV. But I was working so hard, I never had time to celebrate. I never thought I was lucky.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton.

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

I don't pitch for contracts.

We have concerns about the way our members would be treated and whether contracts would be honored. I think there is a strong correlation between a good union contract and excellent journalism and community service.

While our fighters operate at least at 50 percent low operational cost than nearest rivals, our contracts would also ensure a steady supply of spares.

We asked for specific information on how they (FEMA) are awarding contracts and who contracts are going to,

We argued that 18 is the natural age. It's an age that's reflected almost universally whenever legislatures have to find a dividing line between adolescence and adulthood, for purposes of driving, and signing contracts and entering marriage agreements and things like that.

We are working with them and have been since late last week to get those contracts in place.

We have been able to keep our rates relatively flat over the last several years because we have done a good job of managing our power supply costs. Our low-cost power contracts with Vermont Yankee, Hydro Quebec and Morgan Stanley have brought significant value to our customers. However, as the Morgan Stanley contract expires at the end of this year, we are forced to replace it in a significantly higher cost marketplace.

We don't care what number we're at. We may be at 18 when it's all said and done. Somebody's going to make the team and somebody's not. Obviously, you can only have 15 contracts Opening Day, so we'll see who's still standing and who wins the jobs.

There have clearly been serious questions raised about some of the contracts that were awarded in the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq,

There is absolutely nothing in the contracts with AIG that precludes the Starr agencies from using whatever underwriters they wish. AIG is desperately trying to prevent C.V. Starr from competing with them.

We think we're setting the standard for performance. If you see what people have done in other bankruptcies, they've obviously looked at our contracts and things like that as a yardstick to measure their own bankruptcy process.

To rush into something wouldn't be prudent, ... It's going to take time to put maintenance programs together, labor contracts together.

We didn't expect a change to existing contracts but we do expect that governments will adapt their terms to the ... oil price reality ? not just here but all around the world. That's not a surprise.

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While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

The problem is that most top coaches have contracts at least until the World Cup, so we may have to wait a bit to make an official announcement.

We have several contracts open up there right now.

We have seen several examples of how these no-bid or quick-bid contracts are being given to friends of the Bush administration, ... We need to have a detailed plan for reconstruction before any moneys are doled out or contracts signed.

There is prima facie evidence of violation of clauses relating to use of undue influence and agents/agency commission, as contained in the contracts of Anti-Material Rifles (AMR) signed in 2002,

The reason we gave this coaching staff the contracts we did is because we believe in them over the long-term.

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Both sides benefit. Thermo King was the crown jewel. And, what's left is the power generation business with very large contracts particularly in developing markets, mainly in Asia.

The government is not going to default on contracts they have with the public. The bottom line and the word we have to get out is that it doesn't matter the size of this, we will be able to pay the claims.

We've been looking at all the contracts from day one. One concern is whether you are getting the fair market value. The second is whether the people we are giving contracts to are the best qualified.

The reasons for non-renewal of contracts are clearly stated in the policy.

The original impetus was that these companies got contracts to work on Y2K. The good companies were able to transform themselves to provide services in the Internet area.

We have a contractual agreement with (Adidas), and it's not any different than any number of other contracts with other schools. There is not any stipulation or any research that shows any shoes are worse than any others.

What is more interesting is the agents over the years who have stolen money from players. I don't have a history like that. I think I'm up about $900 million in trying to get contracts for these guys.

You may have misappropriation of government dollars or theft by deception or something of that nature. But the way the contracts were, the way the monies were provided to the day cares, it didn't place limitations on the dollars per se. Therefore, we can't charge a crime.

What was most comfortable with Mark was what we went with. That was the flat fee. We determine the flat fee together. Whenever you do contracts you want to make sure you're working on them together so you're both comfortable. I think that's what we did.