Under the U.S. settlement, publishers have to state upfront whether they want to opt in or out of the deal to make their books available.
A crucial factor in the deal was Genting's promise to pay a $380 million licensing fee upfront, giving the state money that it desperately needs.
The $224m represented an upfront payment the state agreed to pay Berkshire back in July so the fund would come to its rescue if hurricane damages topped $25bn in this year.
Delaware North, the Buffalo company that was contracted to build and operate the casino, has not been able to get the financing to raise the $370 million it was to pay the state upfront, officials said.
The company had offered to proceed with the deal but delay its upfront payment; the state, however, was said to be concerned about a legal challenge if it allowed the winning bidder to alter the terms of its deal.
Clark, a former prime minister of New Zealand, is one of the first UN officials to state upfront what many observers have come to accept: that there's very little chance that there will be a new, binding treaty in place by the end of the year.
So let me state upfront that Teju Cole and I have the same publisher, Faber, who have put out his new essay collection, Known and Strange Things, an appropriate and beautiful title, taken from a poem by Seamus Heaney, for a book that will be deservedly lauded.
Let me state upfront that I am not blaming Facebook, insiders, or investors.
I'll state upfront that I don't particularly love the hecticness of holiday shopping — the overcrowded stores, the same holiday songs on an endless playback loop, and the quintessential Black Friday stampedes.
Within such a framework of ethics approval, consent still by and large serves the same role that it does in clinical research more generally (i.e. as a means to state upfront what research is about and as a device to circumscribe and delimit subsequent entitlements and expectations of patients in contributing to a research endeavor).
