The competitive balance up and down the valuation chart reflects not just the drawing power of the N.F.L. but also the league's lucrative television contracts, licensing contracts and other revenue that is shared evenly among its 32 teams.
The coalition, which includes a full-time lobbyist, has taken up both technological visions and the sometimes numbing but financially crucial technicalities of contracts, licensing and royalties.
As a result, there is no apparent way to distinguish potentially questionable kickback deals amid a sea of service contracts, licensing agreements and research grants that the government agrees are legitimate.
Until recently, the after-purchase use of a product has been crudely controlled via contracts, licensing or mechanical design, but now it can easily be controlled through chips and cryptography.
Each team receives an equal share of revenue from national media contracts, licensing and ticket receipts from away games.
I had become obsessed with the false validation that comes with labels, contracts, licensing, publishing, and Public Relations as if that made the record more "real".
Many felons apply not just to regain voting rights, but because they cannot qualify for certain state-issued professional licenses -- nursing or contracting licenses, for example -- unless their rights are restored.
In Washington, where I took over from a court-appointed receiver, the work ranged from reducing caseloads to overhauling information technology, contracting, licensing and personnel systems.
The City Charter, the board said, is explicit in conflict-of-interest rules, however, and states: "No public servant shall use or attempt to use his or her position as a public servant to obtain any financial gain, contract, license, privilege or other private or personal advantage, direct or indirect, for the public servant or any person or firm associated with the public servant".
