The Discovery Channel contracted Second Story to produce an Internet-based program that enabled viewers to unwrap a mummy.
For many people, it is difficult to accept the vision that some networking features can be implemented as any other service, therefore subject to search, discovery, negotiation, contracting, etc.
Accounting firms routinely outsource tax preparation and data analysis; lawyers farm out discovery and contract creation; doctors rely on skilled technicians in other countries to do their radiological analysis.
The discovery of alleged contract cheating was a novel experience for the new Unit Coordinator, and upon each anonymous report more was being learnt about the process.
Costco, it probably goes without saying, does not deliver (although it does maintain a contract with Discovery cabs, whose drivers meet laden shoppers at the parking garage).
But Tropical Paradise never got its money back, and in April it sued Discovery for breach of contract in federal district court in Maryland, asserting that it is owed $3.25 million for the unperformed portion of the two contracts.
But a drama that follows them from college to the N.B.A. and finally to Mr. Johnson's discovery that he had contracted the H.I.V. virus in 1991, and the 1992 Olympic Dream Team?
Audience participation doesn't come more wacky than this, but then wackiness is the default mode of Bryony Kimmings's one-woman show inspired by the discovery that she had contracted chlamydia.
In 2008, the agency contracted with Discovery Logic/Thomson Reuters and research economist Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, to do a modeling study.
So far the antiresearch crowd has forced the company to close a small operation that distributed primates in the U.K. Remarkably, antivivisectionists have not pursued Foster in the U.S. A bigger challenge to preclinical research may be to beat out such competitors as Covance, which originally specialized in human clinical trials, and MDS, a provider of contract drug discovery services.
Shortly afterward, just two weeks before the Giro was to begin, Basso terminated his contract with Discovery, meaning the Giro started without its defending champion.
