A key concept in UTP is design: the familiar pre/post-condition pair that describes a contract.
A book on the arms trade, "The Shadow World", by Andrew Feinstein, describes a contract Saab won in South Africa: to receive more than $200m in credits all the planemaker was required to do, the book says, was to spend $3m upgrading pools in Port Elizabeth and marketing the town to Swedish tourists.
He described a contract murder he had heard about that took place in 2001, during a struggle to control Nakhodka, one of Russia's largest ports, on the Pacific.
Mark and Oliver have applied the theory of the "deterministic finite automata" (or DFAs) to describe a contract model as the combination of finite states, transition rules and events, more information available here.
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ANNALS OF LAW about Manhattan divorce lawyer Lester Wallman, 72… He charges three hundred and fifty dollars an hour-a confident but not presumptuous price in Manhattan-and he shares a suite with seven colleagues on the thirtieth floor of the Empire State Building… Describes a pre-nuptial contract Wallman begins to negotiate with another lawyer… He is deeply tanned and wears a gold chain bracelet.
Qataris and foreigners alike described a social contract that offers material comfort and financial reward in exchange for not challenging the government's choices.
Recently the sites have linked to an article published in September in Time magazine, "The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project," which described a $4 million contract given to the Army to develop "thought helmets" that would allow troops to communicate through brain waves on the battlefield.
Tim Larson, president and chief executive officer of Jostens, which was awarded the contract, describes a Super Bowl ring as "the chance to tell the story of the season".
134, 33 L.Ed. 393 (1889) (describing an unconscionable contract as one "such as no man in his senses and not under delusion would make" and suggesting that there may be "contracts so extortionate and unconscionable on their face as to raise the presumption of fraud in their inception" (internal quotation marks omitted)).
139, Vol. 1. "'There is a variance between the doctrine underlying this section and the theoretical justifications that have been advanced for the Missouri decisions.'" This §90, when applied with §85, means that the promise described is a contract without any consideration.
