Deila, who was on a one-year rolling contract, acknowledged he had encountered some "disappointments" during his tenure but said he had always given his all.
Claudio Esteves de Oliveira, director of Urihi, a nonprofit group that provides health care to the Yanomami under a government contract, acknowledged that doctors have recently treated cases of gonorrhea in Yanomami villages here and elsewhere.
And even supporters of the contract acknowledge that there are about 650 teachers — those with more seniority or advanced degrees — who will lose the potential to earn as much as they did under the old contract.
In addition to making the city a more attractive place to work, the new contract acknowledges something that unions have often denied: teachers are not all interchangeable and some deserve to be paid more than others.
The typical sound recording, an album, fits precisely the category of collective work, and if the artist signs a contract acknowledging that it should be treated as a work for hire, that's the end of it".
"This tentative agreement is historic in that the contract acknowledges the city's right to implement a performance compensation plan," Mr. Giuliani said in announcing the agreement last night.
Several lobbyists said the Treasury's model contract acknowledges the possibility that Congress could impose new requirements on recipients of the money, and some Democratic lawmakers have talked about further restricting executive compensation, shareholder dividends or other uses of the money as part of the deal.
At Ebbert L. Furr, 75percentt of students take part in the school's Pre-AP® or AP® program, and are asked to sign a contract acknowledging the benefits of participation as well as the consequences of not meeting expectations.
Hecker mentioned the break-in to the fair sponsors, who had hired security guards and required each participating artist to sign a contract acknowledging that all property left on-site would be at the vendor's own risk and not that of the show's insurance company.
There are solutions: last year the senior executive of a firm with large public sector contracts acknowledged to me that if local councils made it an iron cast condition of all contract bids that proposals must meet a specified, high wage threshold for workers, including cleaners and care workers, then businesses would have no choice but to relent.
Even the Confederation of British Industry, which has been conducting a consultation on the future of public services contracting, acknowledges that after Serco and G4S, the least the public expects is transparency around their governance, ownership and profits.
