ITV's chief operating officer, John Cresswell, said that broadcasters were "suffering from contracts done at the top of the market" with talent and sporting rightsholders and that these could in due course be renegotiated to save money in the future.
Also, newspapers in general are suffering from contracting circulations and the flight of classified ads to the Internet.
The contract would require both parties to continue with the house sale at the agreed price subject to certain conditions: if, for example, the property were found to be suffering subsidence, the contract would become nullified.
Meanwhile, the PC industry has been slowly contracting, suffering from six consecutive quarters of declining sales, according to data from Canalys.
Former Republic of Ireland keeper Paddy Kenny, 37, has left Bury 13 days into his short-term contract after suffering a hamstring injury.
He served eight years before being paroled on compassionate grounds while suffering from Hepatitis B, contracted while performing transfusions in Korea.
Still, while most other major economies are contracting and suffering through the worst economic crisis in decades, China appears to have turned a corner, analysts say.
Tomey Smith, a gaunt, stringy-haired drifter and intermittent drug user suffering from H.I.V. he contracted while in prison, is Exhibit A in "Great Speeches From a Dying World," Linas Phillips's unsettling documentary portrait gallery of nine homeless people living on the streets of Seattle.
After the Russian and Saxon campaign, while suffering from exhaustion, he contracted typhus and died in Kusel, in the Saarland.
The paper had tracked down a flu victim not yet under contract to Max Clifford, suffering from the "killer virus" that has brought imminent death to, variously, each school in Britain, 94,000 Londoners, every pig in Egypt and, says a hysterical virologist, "the whole of humanity".
