It seeks to restore a contract between government and U.S. corporations that existed for most of their existence: "If you're going to get the limited liability privilege, you should show you're giving something back to the community," Hockett tells me.
"We are sure that if we do nothing, nothing will happen," said Representative Hoyer, the House majority leader and a Maryland Democrat, who is backing the effort to restore the franchise contracts.
Academics in the country lost access to Elsevier content briefly early this year, but it was later restored while contract talks resumed.
At one office in Illinois, a senior recruiter restored a contract less than two hours after The Post inquired about a case.
The island's bankrupt public utility has struggled to restore power amid contracting scandals, materiel shortages and intermittent blackouts, and the biggest restoration contractor, Fluor Corp., confirmed that it is pulling out of Puerto Rico in the next several weeks after reaching the funding limit of its $746 million contract.
Can the right group of people collaborate to reexamine and restore the social contract between business and society?
We have the ability to restore the social contract and rebuild the trust and confidence of our people in democracy.
To get into balance, we need to restore the social contract -- the deal that public resources are rightly used to promote business, and in exchange, businesses recognize a duty to shared prosperity.
"It's not a silver bullet, but it represents a change of thinking in that there has been this perpetual hope that somehow we could just restore the social contract that existed in the 1970s," said Merkley.
He and his company, the Saudi Binladin Group, won coveted contracts to restore and expand the sacred mosques at Mecca and Medina.
Halliburton, without competitive bidding, is given a contract to restore the Iraqi oil sector.
