And trademark, which is governed by different laws and is much more contextual, has been used by athletes and coaches to get a measure of control over terms like "three-peat" or "Revis Island".
"While a lot of this might look like normal work, when you consider the position that many of these workers are in, where they have paid extortionate fees for their jobs, have had to work as long as three years to pay off that debt, and have no access to personal identification documents or any control over terms or conditions of work, then this isn't decent work – it is akin to modern slavery".
Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, says that information and technology will help people manage their health independently and give people with long-term conditions control over their own care.
Worktime control was evaluated in terms of both "control over daily working hours" and "control over days off".
Graves testified, "...Under the current terms of the Corps Project Partnership Agreementss, the corps retains "exclusive control" over key terms of these agreements, in addition to general immunity, while the non-federal sponsor's role is largely reduced to that of a bystander -- hardly that of a "partner....".
Instead, he said, it was to rewrite the agreements for a small portion of its line-of-credit loans, giving the bank more control over the terms.
On one hand, they desperately need the services many of these groups provide; at the same time, they have no control over the terms or conditions according to which that "help" or "aid" gets doled out.
"There's no way this was hurried and this wasn't something that researchers had control over in terms of the publication timing," said Rush Holt, chief executive of the AAAS and one of the signatories to the letter to Smith.
At one end of the continuum are pure marketplaces, which exert little control over the terms of the transactions between independent suppliers or professionals and customers (e.g., eBay, Elance-oDesk, GrubHub-Seamless, OpenTable, Poshmark, RelayRides).
"For SMBs Arex offers total control over the terms of their financing," adds Jalkanen.
Again in Vance, the duo bought up $2 million of the issue to give them control over the terms if necessary.
