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These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.
A 5-percent royalty is paid on any production during the period the contract is in effect ; ;
if the Government certifies that production may be possible from the property, the royalty obligation continues for the 10-year period usually specified in the contract or until the Government's contribution is repaid with interest.
The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.
The essence of contract is that one is free to make a choice of what one will or will not do.
In addition to its major effort on fuel cells, Patterson Moos Research Division is continuing to carry on research in other fields, both under contract for the Defense Department, other government agencies and for our own account.
In the stock market, the normal trading package is a hundred shares, just as 5,000 bushels is the standard grain contract package.
It is convenient to assume that the union-industry contract is of one year's duration.
It is not surprising that the international obligations of states were also viewed in terms of contract.
That is, when first penetration takes place, the pressure and pain signals may involuntarily cause all the vaginal muscles to contract in an effort to bar the intrusion and prevent further pain.
What Gabriel was asking was that mankind forego all its parochial moral judgments, and contract to let the Angels serve on Earth as it is in Heaven regardless of the applicable Earth laws.
* 1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York which holds that the " right to free contract " is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
The notion of abstract data types is related to the concept of data abstraction, important in object-oriented programming and design by contract methodologies for software development.
If the traffic on a virtual circuit is exceeding its traffic contract, as determined by the GCRA, the network can either drop the cells or mark the Cell Loss Priority ( CLP ) bit ( to identify a cell as potentially redundant ).
But Philia insists that, even though she is in love with Hero, she must honor her contract with the Captain, for " that is the way of a courtesan.
In engineering and its various subdisciplines, acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met.
A principal purpose of acceptance testing is that, once completed successfully, and provided certain additional ( contractually agreed ) acceptance criteria are met, the sponsors will then sign off on the system as satisfying the contract ( previously agreed between sponsor and manufacturer ), and deliver final payment.
: In contract acceptance testing, a system is tested against acceptance criteria as documented in a contract, before the system is accepted.

contract and undertaking
The contract is an exchange of the right to establish which suit, if any, is trumps for an undertaking to win ( at least ) the number of tricks specified by the highest bid.
Tree's last professional undertaking was a visit to Los Angeles in 1915 fulfilling a contract with a film company.
Specialties differ from a simple contract, i. e., a contract under hand, in that they are enforceable without consideration ( i. e. gratuitous ), in some jurisdictions have a liability limitation period of double that of a simple contract, and allow for a third party beneficiary to enforce an undertaking in the deed, thereby overcoming the doctrine of privity.
After her contract was terminated, CBS offered her a role in a new undertaking that would become known as the soap opera, or daytime serial.
In such transactions the undertaking by the beneficiary to deliver the goods to the applicant is not sufficient consideration for the bank ’ s promise because the contract of sale is made before the issuance of the credit, thus consideration in these circumstances is past.
Accordingly, whether the documentary credit is referred to as a promise, an undertaking, a chose in action, an engagement or a contract, it is acceptable in English jurisprudence to treat it as contractual in nature, despite the fact that it possesses distinctive features, which make it sui generis.
At Goldberg's insistence, Olmert signed a contract with Almaliah undertaking to repay the loan in January 2009.
The channel's contract to broadcast was set to expire on 30 June 2007 ; however Ofcom confirmed that all RSL licences would be extended until the 2012 digital switchover but gave no undertaking that a digital licence would be granted.
The court initially ordered McManaman to fulfil his contract, plus an undertaking to pay Umbro's legal costs for launching contempt of court proceedings against him in 1997, which McManaman accepted and apologised for.

contract and win
They then went on to beat Crystal Palace 1 – 0 at the Valley on 27 January to achieve their first league win under Phil Parkinson, whose contract was made permanent despite the lack of progress in the league.
He was thus able to use the powerful but comparatively heavy Willys " Go Devil " engine, and win the initial production contract.
Several days earlier, the Royals bulked up their bullpen by inking starting pitcher Storm Davis, who was enjoying a career-high 19 game win record ( third best in the AL ) with the Athletics in 1989, on a three-year $ 6 million contract.
That season Cobb was 18 years old, the youngest player in the league by almost a year, and he batted. 240 in 41 games, enough to win a lucrative $ 1, 500 contract from the Tigers for 1906.
* Grand slam, a bridge contract to win all thirteen tricks
The founders of the Pony Express hoped to win an exclusive government mail contract, but that did not come about.
In contract bridge and similar games, a finesse is a card play technique which will enable a player to win an additional trick or tricks should there be a favorable position of one or more cards in the hands of the opponents.
McLaren kept the Sex Pistols ' contract rights until Lydon took him to court in the 1980s to win the rights and unpaid revenues from McLaren.
Protagonistas de la Música was a Spanish reality television program taped in Miami, where various participants competed to win a recording contract with Sony Records.
She went on to win the prestigious Bancroft Gold Medal for Hedda Gabler and was offered a Hollywood contract when she left.
Early in the 2012 – 13 season, after just one league win in four games, Assistant Manager Terry Connor had his contract terminated by the club.
ABDC won the contract but had insufficient money to operate it ; ITC failed to win a contract, mainly due to a perceived conflicts of interest resulting from the existing business operations of Grade and Littler.
It was considered difficult for ABC to win the Midlands seven-day contract as the existing five-days contractor ATV had also applied and was a large earner of overseas revenue, having won the Queen's Award for Export in 1966.
Despite having had trials at Southend United and Brighton during his teens, he was unable to attract sufficient interest to win a professional contract offer.
Allegations of bribery were made against Raytheon in 1995 in connection with its efforts to win a 1. 4 billion dollar radar contract from Brazil for the SIVAM project.
He served as Chairman of Airbus in the late 1980s, until his death in 1988 ; he saw the company win a lucrative but controversial ( see Airbus affair ) contract to supply planes to Air Canada just before his death.
On June 10th 2011 Thales was ordered to pay 630 million euros ( almost a billion US dollars ) in fines after the courts heard that bribes had been paid to the Taiwanese government to win a large naval contract.
As Toivonen had a contract with Lancia for the World Rally Championship, and Lancia boss Cesare Fiorio wanted Capone to win the European title, it was suggested that Fiorio might enter Toivonen in WRC events to keep him away from important ERC rounds.
Benítez revealed that Kewell was in extra training with the reserves in a bid to win a new contract.
WWE also did this when Edge cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to win the World Heavyweight Championship from The Undertaker and when The Great Khali won a battle royal after Edge's injury.
Heskey remained at Villa Park for one more year, during which he scored just once, in an August win over Blackburn Rovers, before it was confirmed that his contract would not be renewed at the end of the season.
In May 2006 he was offered a new one year contract with the club, and celebrated by scoring the first goal in Liverpool's last league game of the season in a 3 – 1 away win at Portsmouth.

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