This provision essentially codifies and expands existing CFTC exemptions for swaps and forward contracts, thereby eliminating a degree of legal ambiguity that has frustrated product innovation and growth.
The Chinese government agreed, for example, to make it easier for foreign companies to win government contracts by eliminating a system of preferences for products listed in special directories — generally those made by Chinese companies.
The contract eliminates a clause that currently allows the district to exceed the agreed-upon maximum class sizes.
The new county attorney, Lorna Bade Goodman, has eliminated a number of outside contracts for legal services and has given her lawyers more resources to prepare their cases, including a computerized legal database.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn). will propose an amendment to constrain the Pentagon from eliminating those contracts in an appropriations committee markup Thursday, after a report Monday from The Washington Post about internal Defense Department recommendations to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
State and local Boards of Education can provide a healthier environment by eliminating marketing contracts between school districts and soft drink companies.
The cuts, which will come through layoffs, attrition and eliminating contract workers, amount to nearly 9percentt of the unit's work force, said a spokeswoman, Barbara Murphy.
Among her prescriptions: eliminating the union contract provisions that protect the most veteran - and often the highest-paid - teachers from layoffs.
"Public Act 4 provides a blank check to special interests focused on selling public assets, eliminating public contracts and dissolving Democracy".
Stanley Hill, executive director of District Council 37, an umbrella group representing 120,000 city workers, accused the Mayor yesterday of sidestepping the issue of whether the city should dismantle the agency by eliminating or contracting out the jobs.
