The Soviet Union did not therefore seem to be a reliable contracting party.
Perhaps, too, say others outside the government, the shortage is due to sheer incompetence, and Nigeria should have negotiated more reliable contracts, or taken steps at home to satisfy the fuel needs of its people.
State records show that Reliable Contracting and City Construction made donations to the unsuccessful mayoral bid of Gery Chico, the former city school board president and one-time top Daley aide, in the election in February.
They show how firms, communities and organizations come to solve these problems absent government regulation and how the choices they make can be disrupted or worsened by bad state policy or sustained by good rules that promote stable property rights and reliable contracts.
Suppose you don't employ a full time IT guy, but have a service contract with a reliable local IT firm.
My Byzantine Generals work [on making software fault-tolerant, in 1980] came about because I went to SRI and had a contract to build a reliable prototype computer for flying airplanes for NASA.
Robin Derricourt uses an immensely readable series of informal letters to provide a fund of practical advice: an up-to-date manual on how to plan and prepare a book, approach a publisher, secure a contract, and build a reliable author-publisher relationship that will last throughout the process of publication and marketing.
In a meeting with Mrs. Clinton, Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi gave "very clear indications" that China would fulfill its contracts and be a "reliable supplier," according to an American official.
He was also the founder of the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, one of Brooklyn's largest nonprofit organizations and a reliable well of votes, support and government contracts.
Some might argue that there is value in "keeping him happy," but I'm not so sure there is an reliable link between large guaranteed contracts and future performance.
