"Provider exit and large-scale contract handbacks demonstrate the fragility of this market.
"Without any exaggeration a large-scale contract has been prepared by Rosneft," said President Vladimir V. Putin said after a meeting on Thursday with China's vice premier, Zhang Gaoli.
Thus, it is unclear whether our results are generalizable across the United States and across the various large-scale contract growers that dominate the U.S. poultry industry.
In recent years China has formed alliances and joint ventures in Venezuela, Russia and Brazil to produce oil, and Chinese companies are competing to obtain large-scale contracts for exploration and development of fields in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa.
It is unclear exactly what Mr. Kearney did, but Maximus officials said one task was to help city officials extend the existing welfare service agreements, some with groups that were bidding on the same new large-scale contracts Maximus was pursuing.
Huawei, the world's biggest supplier of telecoms infrastructure systems, is effectively locked out of large-scale contracts in the US after a House of Representatives intelligence committee recommended that the four largest telecoms networks there should not buy equipment from the company or another Chinese firm, ZTE.
Still, the chance to double in size, and land the most lucrative, large-scale contracts, proved irresistible.
Gazprom head Alexey Miller said: "Looking ahead, we expect new large-scale contracts and growing joint presence in new markets".
Large-scale contracting with the private for-profit sector cannot be recommended at this stage, although this option could be explored via subcontracting by larger NGOs or smallscale trial contracts initiated by the public health ministry.
Construction of the line, supervised by Grainger & Miller, proved challenging, as a large-scale contracting industry was not yet in place in Scotland; nor was large-scale financing.
Secure at least five large scale commercial contracts over the next three years.
