The North said Friday that it was canceling what it calls "preferential" contracts for South Korean companies operating in the factory park in Kaesong, just north of the border.
And David Kocieniewski writes that Municipal Council President Donald Bradley and a dean at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey misspent nearly a million dollars of the school's money on "country club parties and bonuses for themselves and no-show jobs and preferential contracts for their friends," according to a federal monitor's report.
But in the five years since, the upstarts have grabbed more than 85 percent of the wind turbine market, aided by low-interest loans and cheap land from the government, as well as preferential contracts from the state-owned power companies that are the main buyers of the equipment.
There are of course many other forms of rent distribution, including free or subsidized public services, non-salary transfers, preferential contracts for local business etc.
She was later appointed chief contracts officer, and it was in that capacity, her lawyer told the jury, that she objected to what she felt was preferential treatment in contracting being given to vendors whose employees were members of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.
Based on the given CBP, the VER aggregating a great number of customers can get a preferential price while contracting with the electricity company directly, which compensates for the discount offered to customers.
"We don't need any preferential treatment in contracts, but we should have this expertise taken into account".
The party state encourages companies to band together into industry clusters by giving them preferential access to contracts and stockmarket listings.
Two months later, a businessman pleaded guilty to obtaining to false citizenship papers, which he used to get a security clearance from the Department of Defense so that he could receive preferential small-business contracts.
Those companies that choose to participate in the Patriot Corporation program would be provided with preferential treatment in government contracting and a 5% tax rate reduction for pledging their allegiance to our country by meeting a few no-nonsense standards.
