In 2005 and 2006 the two companies combined added more than 4,000 contracts, equivalent to at least four years of production.
Funds bought an unusually large number of CBOT wheat futures on Thursday, estimated by traders at 20,000 contracts, equivalent to 100 million bushels of wheat.There is still the danger that governments will panic and start limiting exports or hoarding supplies.
Ever channeling the common man, Brooks predicted that the result will be a "popular backlash" against these "offices, schools and contracts" equivalent to the "21st-century version of the guillotine".
The idea that television contracts for Major League Baseball and the National Football League would be worth billions, that individual franchises like the Yankees or the Washington Redskins could be valued at more than a billion dollars, that individual players could have multiyear contracts equivalent to the budget of a small city -- all this would seem Orwellian to him.
South Florissant is also where you'll find the city's public resources: the police department, the public library and the privately contracted equivalent of a DMV, which is run by Ferguson Mayor James Knowles.
Lynch believed that the "creative control" clause in his contract was equivalent to his having "final cut" authority in a film; in fact, that contract was with Imagine, not with the network.
Many economists scoffed: Mr. Masters was making the bizarre claim that betting on a higher price of oil — for that is what it means to buy a futures contract — is equivalent to actually burning the stuff.
A smart contract is equivalent to a little program that you can entrust with money and rules around that money.
"We want to see part-time staff employed on fractional contracts with equivalent rates of pay and conditions to full-time colleagues.
TechCrunch reached out to Facebook to ask if it also contracted with equivalent left-leaning groups or other political firms it was willing to disclose because information about the many firms a company like Facebook contracts with is generally not openly available.
