In New York City, however, the teachers' federation has its own small example of a thin contract -- an agreement that it reached between teachers and the board at the Amber Charter School on East 106th Street in Manhattan.
In a speech in 1999, Sandra Feldman, Ms. Weingarten's predecessor at the United Federation of Teachers and now president of the American Federation of Teachers, urged local unions to move away from contracts laden with work rules in favor of streamlined or "thin" contracts tailored to individual schools in exchange for giving teachers a larger voice in the management of schools.
Recognizing that work-rule changes are in order, in September the union proposed a new "thin" contract that would do away with a vast majority of rules -- but in a gradual process that would begin with perhaps 150 schools and be expanded once teachers saw that the new process was not the end of the world.
Another example of the innovative formulations that result from collaboration are "thin contracts," which reduce hundreds of pages of clauses and conditions found in typical union contracts to slimmer documents that focus on shared priorities and leave room for local flexibility.
We also extended these studies to differentiated primary mouse muscle cell cultures; we observed two types of myotubes in primary cultures: thin slowly contracting myotubes with nuclei aligned along the middle of the fiber (immature myotubes), and thicker, faster contracting myotubes often with small or large nuclei clusters (mature myotubes).
Interestingly, even in very long-term (two week) cultures, thin, slowly contracting myotubes without nuclei clusters persisted in the culture.
But farmers say they cannot raise pay much when margins are so thin and supermarket contracts so short-term.
cDairy producers could also manage their own profit margin risk using bundles of milk and feed futures and options but this has disadvantages including lumpy contracts, thin markets and basis risk (Bozic et al. 2012).
For the Saudis China's claim that business is business is likely to wear thin if the contracts substantially bolster Iran.
The tour was ended early, and with Thin Lizzy's contract with Decca coming to an end, a disillusioned Downey quit the band and had to be begged to return.
