The economy is contracting, and as it contracts, it squeezes jobs, incomes, spending and prices.
This morning, the United States Supreme Court answered the question of whether the NFL is acting as one entity or as 32 separate teams when it enters contracts for production of items such as jerseys and hats.
City officials said they are legally unable to include those protections in new contracts as it rebids many of its 7, 700 school-bus lines.
Easy as it can be to forget as we scrutinize the contracts and obligations and weigh them against the team's future needs, the Yankees are in the business not of getting the most wins for their dollar, but the most wins, and ancient players aren't going to hurt the cause.
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If debt continues to grow as the economy contracts, it will become even harder to bear.
It uses what's called Shape Memory Alloy technology, so as each pin expands, it remembers and contracts back to its original flat shape.
Once seen as badly trailing its competitors in areas such as directional drilling and drilling fluids, Halliburton now has everything it needs to win contracts for projects such as designing, building and operating systems to manage production from oilfields.
In the Fremling household that means parents sticking to contracts and, as it turns out, they have found that hard on occasion.
But it also raises a question: if Linda Hudson succeeds in growing her part of the company even as military demand contracts sharply in Europe, will it still make sense for the company to be headquartered in the United Kingdom?
We all remember that AIG Financial Products fell over as a result of the CDS contracts it wrote.
It has lost its contracts as the primary supplier to New York City, Los Angeles and the District of Columbia to Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ).
By progressively reducing the ETF as consumers ride out their contracts, which it is sort-of doing already.
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In 1974 private ownership of gold was allowed once again, but it could not be used as payment in contracts.
Managed-money accounts significantly lowered their net-long position in gold, dropping it to 88, 937 contracts as traders sold off long positions and added new short positions.
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Things should improve next year, says Christine Whitehead of the London School of Economics, as new contracts have been signed, but it is far from certain how many homes will be built.
He said he wanted the league "to take some of the huge amount of money that appears at the top as a result of the television contracts and distribute it down to the bottom".
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By placing interleaved comb-like electrodes on the surface of lithium niobate, a material that is piezoelectric (and so expands or contracts as a current is passed through it), Dr Wixforth was able to fine-tune the waves to do his bidding.
But as one of six insurers that contracts with Monarch, it will also benefit from patients' lower costs.
At best it would mean a deep recession, as debts and contracts were recalculated in national currencies, and savers and investors fled to the safest havens.
But convincing the powerful Michigan unions that nobody is going to touch their contracts is a tough sell - as well it should be.
Local 399, which represents truck drivers, casting directors and location managers, had told its members that as a union, it has a legal obligation to honor its contracts with producers.
Tech procurement has its flaws, but it can act as a seal of approval for vendors winning government contracts.
However, whether this is possible remains unclear as the committee was told it might cost more to escape from the contracts than fulfil them.
In fact, eye squints can be observed as people read contracts or proposals, and when they occur, it is almost always a sign of having seen something troubling or problematic.
It said savings would come through renegotiating contracts and supplies such as payroll services and external audit fees and no jobs would be lost.
So they will no longer include what is known as soft facilities management, or contracts for catering, cleaning, security and IT.
As an early PBC adopter, it was one of the few companies offering both contracts to customers using the same engines over many years.
In this environment, many suppliers will sacrifice margins for fixed long-term contracts with a reputable, credit-worthy buyer, especially as it can help them establish lines of credit with their banks.
Citi said while the net short position in copper is not as high as it was in February 2009 when it reached more than 22, 000 short contracts in the disaggregated report, copper remains in an oversold condition.
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It contracts some tax and accounting advice from PricewaterhouseCoopers and uses Bankers Trust as a custodian.
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