The contract obligated Saint-Étienne to make on April 1 a quarterly payment of €1.18 million — equivalent to an annual rate of 24 percent on the debt — while Deutsche Bank would pay €241,886.
The contract obligated her to be the principal rapper on five albums, for which she would receive various payments and benefits, including rent money for an apartment of her own, college tuition, a car, and thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry — altogether, a package worth somewhere between half a million and a million dollars.
Under direct examination, Mr. Sullivan described how he arranged Mr. Ganim's personal $1 million life insurance policy through the Hartford Life Insurance Company, and how the contract obligated the city to pay the policy's annual premium, $42,300, in a lump sum each spring.
Finally, the legislation established strict procedures by which any employee of the government could sign a contract obligating the federal government to make any kind of payment.
The courts have already awarded the companies about $1 billion, because the government signed contracts obligating it to begin taking the waste in 1998, but seems unlikely to do so for years.
Getting no help from Washington, the governor was forced to sign disadvantageous long-term contracts, obligating electricity distributors and consumers to pay high prices for electricity for years to come.
(One reason that deregulation became popular in the first place was that utilities had signed contracts obligating them to pay prices for purchased power that turned out to be far higher than market prices.
What was found, according to industry officials who have been briefed on the results, is that not all farmers had signed required contracts obligating them to follow certain procedures intended to keep StarLink out of the food supply.
In addition to a copyright claim, the lawsuit charged that by reading Mr. Greenstein's play, the Royal Court entered into a contract that obligated it to compensate the playwright.
