Most make sport and high-tech "tactical" knives (partly in pursuit of contracts from the military, which still regards a knife as the soldier's ideal all-purpose tool, and the weapon of last resort).
The drive to find work and the lack of support from Stanford faculty caused the new research institute to violate this directive six months later through the pursuit of a contract with the Office of Naval Research.
Billy Hunter, the N.B.A. players union chief, has endorsed the pursuit of overseas contracts.
The key issue for A4e was whether the political controversy surrounding Harrison would hamper the firm in its pursuit of future contracts.
4Children embarked on its rapid expansion plan under Longfield in 2011, more than doubling income to £30m within four years after an aggressive pursuit of council contracts.
But, if anything, Boeing has been too quick to look for help from the Pentagon when the rest of its business is going badly, which helps explain why the company has been so ardent in its pursuit of defense contracts.
"Maximus has demonstrated a pattern of questionable behavior in West Virginia and other states in pursuit of government contracts," Mr. Hevesi wrote in a letter sent to the mayor on Friday.
"Our pursuit of additional contracts in the region is based on this experience in addition to KBR's work on Project RIO (Restore Iraq Oil)." During a conference call with industry analysts in October, David J. Lesar, Halliburton's chief executive, said that he had visited Iraq and that the company was already doing a limited amount of work on oil wells there.
As a result of its "aggressive" pursuit of such contracts, Turner said, NASA Langley received the Small Business Administrator's Cup from NASA.
But Dave Kerpen's post reminded me that too many sellers get lost in the pursuit of the contracts and quota and forget their real goal is a long term relationship.
