Contingent deals can create incentives for particular behavior good and bad and enable parties to forge agreements based on differences in their beliefs.
Other contingent deals driven by underlying forecast differences include performance-based clauses in sports or executive contracts and milestone-based payments in biotech strategic alliances.
(It was a "cast-contingent" deal, and a suitable cast could not be found).
I don't think, though, that you can sort of ignore them, to say because they didn't invest six years on this case on an entirely contingent basis, deal with very complex financial and valuation issues, and ignore the fact that they were up against major league, first-rate legal talent.
Since President Barack Obama took office, the Department of the Interior has recognized dozens of new tribes and approved requests from a handful of others to acquire land that could house a casino, contingent on deals between the tribes and their home states.
Those scores of FBI agents combing the ruins in Nairobi (as well as the beefed up CIA contingent now dealing with the situation) aren't the answer to a sudden crisis.
Resilience, while being yet another modern catch-phrase popular among current policy and academic contingents when dealing with certain crises or trauma, is indeed relevant.
There was a vote on a resolution, which was complicated and contingent upon another deal, but roughly the question was whether or not to do a deal with Family First and put them in the top 10 preferenced parties, if we didn't get a better offer.
Amnesty said that the release should not have been contingent on any deal.
Most contracts now have a clause making the deal contingent upon the buyer's getting a mortgage.
The deal, contingent on Canó's passing a physical, will earn him $28 million for the 2008 through 2011 seasons.
