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Calculating the correct share is complicated by "Ali Baba" companies, in which Malay equity holders subcontract the work to Chinese firms.It is too much to expect Mr Najib to demolish his father's policy in one go.
Russian Railways also awarded a subcontract for the road to a private company, SK Most, with close links to Mr Yakunin.
To do so he used another peer-to-peer website to subcontract the job of assessing creditworthiness to a number of ordinary people.
And if a firm does not have a comparative advantage in producing any particular unit, it can subcontract the task to an outside specialist.There are less-obvious gains from breaking down service tasks into ever smaller units.
"Maybe we should subcontract all of public education to home-schoolers," Bill Bennett, Mr Reagan's education secretary, once wondered mischievously.
So local suppliers, to which you subcontract your manufacturing, have to be coaxed both to keep their prices down and to push their standards up in ways that may seem reasonable in California, but look decidedly odd in Asia.On October 18th, with commendable frankness, Reebok published a 41-page report on how it was walking this particular tightrope in Indonesia.
In January, the company said it would pull out of the manufacture of its own handsets and subcontract that business to reduce costs.
The right fires back that governments already subcontract far too much of their social policy to companies, using them as vehicles to limit working hours (in France), to promote racial harmony (in America) and to clean up the environment (just about everywhere on the planet).This debate does not lack hot air; but it does lack a sense of history.
All efforts to subcontract management of the most troubled schools to private companies, such as the Edison Project, or to provide vouchers to subsidise attendance at private schools, have been blocked.Mr Klein is being faulted on New York's call-in radio shows for lacking education experience (he briefly taught in the New York schools after college) and for not being black or Hispanic.
The middle classes tend to hire decoration companies, which subcontract to whichever construction firm pays the best kickbacks.
If global jihad is at the root of its problems, it is not enough, as China has done, in effect to subcontract the war against it to America and its allies, and to hope that its client, Pakistan, will rein in extremist groups based on its soil.
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The primary grammatical function of "subcontract" is as a verb , indicating the act of assigning a portion of a contracted project to another party. It can also function as a noun , referring to the portion of work that is assigned. Ludwig examples shows these usages.
Expression frequency: Very common
