This week, the C.F.T.C. issued new rules restricting how client assets can be invested, which had grown under C.F.T.C. interpretations to include sovereign debt and transactions known as "in-house repos," or repurchase agreements, in which a firm contracts with itself to use customer assets as, in effect, interest-free loans to finance its inventory of Treasury bonds.
He said earlier this month: "As far as I'm concerned I've got a firm contract that the fight is taking place.
Earlier today, Damon Hill, the president of the BRDC, added further strength to the belief that a firm contract may now be in sight.
Scruggs did obtain inside information about State Farm — volumes of it, delivered to him by Cori and Kerri Rigsby, sisters who were working as adjusters for a firm contracted by State Farm.
Thrillers, as we shall call them, offer the reader a firm contract: there will be violent events, we will go places our parents didn't take us, the protagonist will conquer and survive, and social order will, however temporarily, be restored.
Where Southern Co. will only add transmission capacity if it has a firm contract in hand, PJM can order lines to be built.
Ferrari have an arrangement with Vettel for the season after next, but it is not clear whether it is a firm contract or the equivalent of a letter of intent for him to join them.
Nevertheless, the British Overseas Airways Corporation BOACC) found the Type IV's specifications attractive, and initially proposed a purchase of 25 aircraft; in December 1945, when a firm contract was laid out, the order total was revised to 10.
Fearful of competitors stealing their ideas, and still without a patent, they flew on only one more day after October 5. From then on, they refused to fly anywhere unless they had a firm contract to sell their aircraft.
The order was subsequently confirmed with the signing of a firm contract with Airbus on 12 September 2007 and it will be shared between the airline and its sister airline Hong Kong Express Airways.
The New York Times reports that an Oct. 21 letter from committee chairman Ed Markey to the ACCCE asked whether its lobbying disclosures for 2008 and the first half of 2009 should have included work conducted by the Hawthorn Group, a firm contracted by the ACCCE to coordinate so-called grass-roots lobbying efforts.
