But with little rhyme or reason, the Knicks -- or the collection of expiring contracts wearing the organization's uniforms -- recently looked road ready.
The roster will not be looked upon as a random collection of expiring contracts but as a unit that might stick around for a while — and get better.
Conclusion and future works are presented in Section 7. The IFS theory is proposed by Barnsley, who suggested that, instead of storing all the pixels of the still image, we can keep only a collection of global contracting transformations such as rotation and contrast scaling [15].
Four Winds Capital Management, an investment firm that is setting up a waste-industry fund, reckons that the average length of a collection contract is seven years; of a disposal contract, nine years; and of an integrated contract, 17 years.
"The company is vigorously pursuing its remedies under the contracts, including collection of the outstanding receivable amounts".
Enron, on the other hand, may disappear forever as its collection of energy assets and trading contracts are gradually cleaned up and sold to others.One lesson that the late 1990s did teach America was the powerful effect on corporate behaviour of short-term moves in share prices.
For example, lenders do not disclose all fees charged in the servicing and collection of student loans, and loan contracts do not always include benefits that are promised in lender advertisements — like the possibility of a lower interest rate after graduation.
The result is a complicated web of contracts and payments among radio stations, collection agencies, record labels, composers, musicians and their estates.
Those that directly bought the oil and resold it were a scattered collection of politically connected businessmen rewarded with contracts by the government, small oil dealers and companies with no experience in the business, among them a Thai rice company and a Belarussian drug company.
In the eighties, a contract for the collection of many millions in fines was granted to a company called Datacom Systems Corporation, whose president had agreed to pay bribes to the Queens borough president and the deputy director of the Parking Violations Bureau.
