Those trades never panned out, and mere months away from being able to opt-out of his deal with the Magic and reach free agency, Howard inexplicably opted to extend his contract by one year.
But a contract is a contract, even one signed by a lousy human being.
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In such a setting the rule that marriage was necessarily a contract terminated only by the death of one of the spouses was not only moral but socially necessary.
Few Americans know more about that hysteria and the cost it incurs than U.S. pig farmers, who can probably feel pork prices dropping everything someone uses the "s-word" despite the stubborn fact that one cannot contract this virus by eating pork.
The 62-year-old Smith extended his second hugely-successful spell at Rangers by signing a new one-year contract after retaining the Scottish title and winning the Co-operative Insurance Cup.
Harsley, 29, is out of contract and is one of four players to be offered new deals by manager Lee Sinnott.
The usual hedge-fund contract at least protects you from getting whipsawed by a manager who makes money one year, loses it the next and makes it back the third year.
The original contract was rejected by consultants in England and Wales by a margin of almost two to one last year.
If it chooses the latter course of action, AOL Time Warner must have entered into at least one such contract at the time it enters the advanced IM business, followed by two more contracts with rivals 180 days later.
By filling up a truck first, Lowe's pays contract freight rates as low as one-fifth of those for smaller deliveries.
With his contract up in three months, he is being given one last chance to prove his worth by evaluating a top high school prospect who the Braves are considering taking with their first overall draft pick.
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Among other disparities, the forensic analysis allegedly found that ink on the contract produced by Mr. Ceglia was less than two years old and that the fonts on page one and page two of the contract were different.
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By contrast, Apple owns just one factory, in Cork, Ireland, relying on contract manufacturers to do the rest of its work.
For the freelance writer who wants to be making a living wage by the end of his second year of business, one milestone could be the first paid contract.
In order to have a completed contract, one party has to make an offer, the other has to accept (on the same terms proposed by the offer) and there must be consideration (the money actually changing hands would have been consideration).
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