Follow-up observations in November – December 2003 with the SMARTS telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile as well as with the Tenagra IV telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii revealed that the object was moving along a distant highly eccentric orbit.

The Small and Medium Research Telescope System ( SMARTS ) is a consortium formed in 2001 after NOAO announced it would no longer support anything smaller than two meters at CTIO.

Other telescopes on Cerro Tololo include the 1. 5 m, 1. 3 m, 1. 0 m, and 0. 9 m telescopes operated by the SMARTS consortium.

The member institutions of SMARTS now fund and manage observing time on four telescopes that fit that definition.

SMARTS began managing telescopes in 2003.

During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.

The area most prominently commented on during the McClellan hearings had to do with `` sweetheart contracts ''.

It contracts with outside repair garages for much of the latter work.

enter into contracts with educational institutions, scientific organizations, and industrial and engineering firms ; ;

On the way home, he negotiated with King Levon I of Armenia, the Emperor Theodore I Laskaris of Nicaea and Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and arranged several marriage contracts between his children and the courts he visited.

The production temporarily closed on June 20, 2010 when the contracts of Zeta-Jones and Lansbury ended and resumed on July 13, with new stars Bernadette Peters as Desiree Armfeldt and Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt.

Peters and Stritch extended their contracts until January 9, 2011, when the production closed with 20 previews and 425 regular performances.

Each of these volumes is divided into sections that begin with a text in boldface that summarizes a basic rule on an aspect of the law of contracts, agency etc.

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

Most contracts are awarded by the Department for Transport ( DfT ), with the exception of Merseyrail, where the franchise is awarded by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and ScotRail, where the DfT awards on the advice of the Scottish Government.

Treating other teams differently in regards to their media contracts drew accusations that Selig did not act in good faith with respect to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Connections with the Pentagon and lobbyists in Washington are described by critics as more important than actual competition, due to the political and secretive nature of defense contracts.

The government also strengthened a Fair Wages Resolution, with a clause that required all employers getting government contracts to recognise the rights of their workers to join trade unions.

LeBron James has endorsement contracts with Nike, Inc. | Nike, Sprite ( soft drink ) | Sprite, Glacéau, Bubblicious, Upper Deck Company | Upper Deck, McDonald's and State Farm.

Apparently handcuffed by the Tribune's bankruptcy and the sale of the club to the Ricketts family, the Cubs ' quest for a NL Central 3-peat started with notice that there would be less invested into contracts than in previous years.

The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners.

As of November 2007, the legal validity of contracts of adhesion with class action waivers is unclear, and courts have rendered mixed and sometimes contradictory opinions.

Such contracts may include labor union contracts, supply or operating contracts ( with both vendors and customers ), and real estate leases.

These airlines were able to stop making debt payments, break their previously agreed upon labor union contracts, freeing up cash to expand routes or weather a price war against competitors — all with the bankruptcy court's approval.

Realizing that Atari had firm support from Namco ( the creators of Pac-Man and many other hits ), Coleco entered into contracts with companies such as Sega, Konami, and Universal.

In jazz, blues, rockabilly and other genres, most bassists cannot earn a living from playing in a single group ( with the exception of the small number of bassists in top touring bands or groups with recording contracts ), so they work in different bands and supplement their income with session playing and teaching.

This stretching gives the potential energy that will help maintain blood pressure during diastole, as during this time the aorta contracts passively.

To maintain network performance, networks may apply traffic policing to virtual circuits to limit them to their traffic contracts at the entry points to the network, i. e. the User – network interfaces ( UNIs ) and Network-to-network interfaces ( NNIs ): Usage / Network Parameter Control ( UPC and NPC ).

Anthropologist David Graeber has noted that, historically, the first wage labor contracts we know about – whether in ancient Greece or Rome, or in the Malay or Swahili city states in the Indian ocean – were in fact contracts for the rental of chattel slaves ( usually the owner would receive a share of the money, and the slave, another, with which to maintain his or her living expenses.

It also outlawed discrimination against employees for union activities, prohibited " yellow dog contracts " ( in which an employee agrees not to join a union while employed ), and required both sides to maintain the status quo during any arbitration proceedings and for three months after an award was issued.

Affirmative covenants are clauses in debt contracts that require firms to maintain certain levels of capital or financial ratios.

When this muscle contracts, the cord is shortened and the testicle is moved closer up toward the body, which provides slightly more warmth to maintain optimal testicular temperature.

Brands has a lifetime contract with PepsiCo, with notable exceptions the contracts of franchisees such as HMSHost and college-operated locations with Coca-Cola which override Yum's lifetime PepsiCo contract, along with some scattered KFC franchises across the United States which continue to maintain Coke fountain rights.

The Board of Directors sets and approves the budget, hires the on-site management, hires the in-house landscaping crew, purchases equipment, contracts with vendors to maintain recreational facilities and community maintenance, and sets community rules and regulations.

Smooth muscle contracts slowly and may maintain the contraction ( tonically ) for prolonged periods in blood vessels, bronchioles, and some sphincters.

In the late 18th century, Omoa had a diverse population of Spanish, Indians ( mostly from central Honduras ), enslaved Africans ( the four contracts of royal slaves deployed to build and maintain the fort ), mulattos, and free blacks ( escaped English slaves, mostly from Belize ).

It also outlawed discrimination against employees for union activities, prohibited " yellow dog " contracts ( employee agrees not to join a union while employed ), and required both sides to maintain the status quo during any arbitration proceedings and for three months after an award was issued.

In some sports leagues salary caps have been adopted to maintain a competitive balance and in these leagues it is one of the functions of the general manager to ensure all player contracts are in accordance with these caps, as well as consistent with the desires of the ownership and its ability to pay.

Freight train operators have no contracts with government, and rely on the competitiveness and attractiveness of their product and services to maintain and increase their market shares.

Being a virtual operator, Virgin Mobile does not maintain its own network, and instead has contracts to use the existing network of Everything Everywhere.

From 1989 to 1997, Hardymon continued his goal to maintain consistent growth for the company, decreasing military contracts, insurance, and consumer products, and divesting “ non-core ” businesses.

He gives the team individual contracts, instructing them to attend all of their classes and maintain a grade average of 2. 3 ( although the local average grade students are meant to maintain a 2. 0 ).

NOFS funds all principle operations, and from this contracts Lowell Observatory to maintain the Anderson Mesa facility and make the observations for NOFS to conduct the primary astrometry.

They are no longer offering this service to new residential subscribers, but continue to maintain existing contracts, new features, or new locations on existing accounts.

Brassey was involved in this expansion but was careful to choose his contracts and investors so that he could maintain his standards.

Some maintain that this institution was defined by marriage contracts, others question this claim and see it as a peculiarity of 18th-century customs that is not well-defined or easily explained.

The worlds are divided into the " loose " worlds, where individuals maintain some control over their contracts, and the " tight " worlds, where personal contracts may be bought and sold regardless of the wishes of the individual worker.