This could be achieved by a more widespread implementation of existing subsidiary contracts between private health facilities and local government authorities.
Mr. Houlihan, who had a subsidiary rights contract with the brothers, claimed that "Blaguards" was the source for their subsequent work.
The National Information Consortium, for example, typically sets up local subsidiaries to contract with a state, develop an Internet portal and make information, applications and other transactions available.
John McManus John McManus, who heads up sports at Viacom 's CBS, the network that paid about $390 million for the NCAA broadcast rights, says CBS also owns the rights to NCAA Web broadcasts via its SportsLine subsidiary, which contracted them to AOL. "We wanted to hedge our bets with respect to the Internet," he says.
One way the pharmaceutical industry is working to counter the generic trend is through its own generic subsidiaries and contracts for the production of company authorized generics.
"Common sense says that independently owned means not publicly traded," he said, "yet publicly traded companies and their subsidiaries receive contracts that government agencies put towards their small business goals".
Despite the substantial costs associated with the program, there appear to be no online tender records of Gamma International or any of its subsidiaries holding contracts with the NSW police.
Here's a corporation supposedly headquartered in Houston, Texas, that made billions from American taxpayers thought its military contracting subsidiary, KBR, which received no-bid contracts from the Pentagon to supply services for the Iraq war.
A Baghlan subsidiary received a contract from the ministry to import a thousand London-style cabs to Baku.
And last year, the News Corporation's HarperCollins subsidiary canceled a contract to publish the memoirs of Hong Kong's last colonial governor, Chris Patten, whom Beijing abhors.
