Also left out is striker Benni McCarthy, who has not been picked since refusing to sign a commercial contract with the South African Football Association.
With promising results Biotectix moved into its own labs and landed its first commercial contract (with the Australian medical device maker Cochlear) to incorporate its invention in cochlear implants.
In India, for example, enforcing a simple commercial contract takes 56 procedures and nearly four years, notes the World Bank, while in Venezuela, workers who earn less than 1.5 times the minimum wage can't be fired.
Stephen Hester, the RBS chief executive recruited on a commercial contract by the previous Labour government to salvage the stricken bank, found himself pilloried on tabloid front pages (photographs of him riding to hounds saw heavy use).
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It completed the first commercial flight in October and is vying for a contract for manned flights into orbit alongside Boeing and Sierra Nevada.
Inside the Dragon is 1, 673 pounds of cargo from the station to be delivered to NASA as part of the contract between the space agency and the commercial space company.
By integrating commercial terms negotiated over the evolving life cycle of a contract with procurement and settlement transactions, companies can fully realize their projected savings.
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However, a spokeswoman for BBC Global News said this latter agreement was a "commercial content licensing deal" and completely separate to the iPlayer contract.
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Nasa is attempting to offload routine human spaceflight operations in low-Earth orbit to commercial industry in a way similar to how some large organisations contract out their IT or payroll.
The UK government had proposed ending the contract, saying the safety of vessels and salvage operations was the responsibility of the commercial shipping industry.
"We also contract with local (fuel) suppliers to ensure regular deliveries if there are extended commercial power issues, as we did during Sandy to positive effect, " Pica said.
Unlike the poultry in commercial farms, which are kept in isolation, these chickens and ducks are free to roam, and contract bird flu.
The 189 contract towers handle approximately 20% of all airport operations, but less than 2.5% of commercial operations, according to the talking points.
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