The Air Force's pursuit of new tankers has been the Pentagon's most politically charged contracting effort for nearly a decade.
The general reasons are (a) that interpretation may improve on otherwise imperfect contracts; and (b) that the prospect of interpretation allows parties to write simpler contracts and thus to conserve on contracting effort.
A task force or at least a group that I've triedto get established in the Cancer Institute, either under their grant division or their intramural contract efforts, which are separated as if they were their institutes, is for the cancer of the pancreas.
Beginning on March 12, we will support our teachers in a "work the contract" effort with escalating actions to follow over the coming weeks.
Federal investigators, who long have found corruption in City Hall's minority-contracting efforts, have subpoenaed the city's files on a construction company that was paid at least $26 million in taxpayer money in the past decade.
Where the future contingencies are peculiarly intricate or uncertain, practical difficulties arise that impede the contracting parties' efforts to allocate optimally all risks at the time of contracting.4 Not surprisingly, parties who find it advantageous to enter into such cooperative exchange relationships seek specially adapted contractual devices.
The theory's affirmative claim, in brief, is that contract law should facilitate the efforts of contracting parties to maximize the joint gains (the "contractual surplus") from transactions.
The Contracting States, in an effort to maintain and stabilize peace and security, hereby confirm their desire to settle their international disputes by peaceful means, whether such disputes concern relations among themselves or with other Powers.
Over the ensuing twelve months, first the technology sector, then the rest of manufacturing, and finally the entire economy started to contract — despite the efforts of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, and his colleagues.
As Ohio's governor, John Kasich promoted minority contracting, an effort that helped quadruple his black support.
