Your muscles work to overcome resistance (by contracting) to raise the object to the desired position.
Even small companies can now afford to operate internationally by contracting out the management of the process.
Online takeout ordering services work by contracting with restaurants, mostly in large metropolitan areas, to list themselves on the websites.
Engineers have created a robot that mimics a worm's movements - crawling along surfaces by contracting segments of its body.
They reacted to the withdrawal of excess reserves by contracting.
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In other words, with respect to these funds, American Beacon is merely a middleman a dispensable intermediary whose fees could presumably be eliminated by contracting directly with the underlying advisers.
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The city saves money by contracting for almost all of its basic services with the county, but still reaps the benefits of an elected government, which has been in the hands of a small group of men since the city's founding.
The additional set of over 26, 000 reports released today shows estimated defense spending cut impacts at the "Place of Performance" - a closer measure for potential job losses - for cities, counties and states, with three separate reports for each location: spending by weapon system, by government contracting office, and by products and services.
For instance, a small part of the fall in manufacturing jobs is a statistical illusion caused by manufacturers contracting out services.
Al-Sanea has made most of his fortune investing in construction and finance, particularly by securing contracting deals for the construction of residential and industrial buildings near Saudi Arabia's Al-Khobar region.
More than a few of my great journalist friends are making better livings than before, either hired by or contracting their services to vendors who have information to communicate and fewer vehicles for getting reported, especially thoroughly and accurately reported, by the traditional press.
They expect stagflation, with the economy contracting by 2-2.5% this year and prices rising by more than 40%.
We were contracting by 6 percent and we're now growing by 6 percent.
An economy that was shrinking, was contracting by 6 percent when I was sworn in, is now growing again.
However, Big Brother Watch says some public bodies may be sidestepping that restriction by sub-contracting the work to private security companies.
In the near future the trend is likely to be reversed, and the workforce will start contracting by 1% a year.
So the good news is that where we were contracting by 6 percent the economy is now growing by 6 percent.
Many businesses in Senegal get around the absurd labor laws by means of contracting through companies that act something like temp agencies.
Private consumption grew 1% in the first quarter from the previous three month, while the construction sector continued to decline, contracting by 1%.
According to the Central Bank, February GDP data from the IBC-Br monthly figures showed the economy contracting by 0.23% month over month (seasonally adjusted).
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He criticised the focus on talk of a "double-dip" and "triple-dip" recession - defined by the economy contracting in two consecutive quarters - saying the longer-term trend was more important.
You can't have job growth if the economy is contracting by 6 percent, because businesses look and they say nobody is spending money, we got no customers, we can't hire.
These statistics, provided on a quarterly basis, cover participation in federal contracting by both veteran-owned small businesses and service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses for fiscal year 2001 and the first three quarters of fiscal year 2002.
These safeguards, which have been largely modeled on successful practices in the private sector, will increase stability, productivity, and certainty in Federal contracting by avoiding the disruption and disarray caused by the use of trafficked labor and resulting investigative and enforcement actions.
So let's just be -- let's remind ourselves that if you've got an economy suddenly contracting by 6 percent, or a loss of trillions of dollars of wealth basically in the blink of an eye, or home values descending by 20 percent, that that's going to create a whole lot of uncertainty out there in the business environment and among families.
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In this case, we must prevent children from contracting diarrhea by improving drinking water quality, hygiene standards, and childhood nutrition levels.
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The Worcester Foregate Street Station project has been developed in partnership with London Midland and Network Rail and will be carried out by contractors Buckingham Group Contracting Limited (BGCL).
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Its economy is in free-fall - contracting this year by anywhere between 5 and 7%.
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