Whoever signs the contract first sets the pattern for the rest of the industry.
However the Department seems to have understated the long-term risks when awarding the contract to First Group.
Her first demo tape led to a contract and a first album, Close Your Eyes.
Since signing his first professional contract at Carrow Road in 2006 Spillane has made just 18 first-team appearances.
Karen Graham was its first contract model, and she lasted 15 years (this before retouching).
McAlpine won the contract for the first group of schools in the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside.
The firm said its results were boosted by several sales successes, including its first contract win in Canada.
If the UK economy does contract in the first three months of the year, it will have fallen back into recession for the third time in five years.
Verging on starvation and desperate to escape a contract with his first label, Morrison wound up in a New York studio with a small group of jazz musicians.
The UK economy will contract in the first three months of 2012, taking the country back into recession, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Boyle will sign his first contract in front of the Saints fans at St Mary's before the start of their Championship clash with Wolves on Saturday, 15 November.
At the Deutsche Oper, which gave her her first contract at the age of 23, she made a thorough pest of herself in her quest for better roles.
Questioned on the contract for the first time during the World Cup, O'Sullivan insisted on Saturday there would be no knee-jerk reactions to events of the past two weeks.
Veolia began negotiating with Chinese bureaucrats in the early 1990s, winning its first contract in 1997, a 20-year deal to operate water production in the eastern Chinese city of Tianjin.
But the MTA wants to keep wages flat for the contract's first three years, and then allow for 2% increases in both 2015 and 2016 for about 34, 000 bus and train workers.
Instead, Barcelona, who had been made aware of his talents, offered to pay the medical bills of a boy who stood just 4ft 6in as long as he was prepared to move to Spain, a decision which Messi confirmed when signing his first contract with the club on the back of a paper napkin.
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That sounds like a positive for investors, but the first contract was a short-lived production run for the war in Afghanistan that is already winding down, and Oshkosh bid so aggressively for the more substantial second contract that now it looks unlikely the company will break even on the 23, 000 trucks and trailers it must deliver.
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Advances made by these American companies during the first contract phase known as the certification products contracts (CPC) will begin the process of ensuring integrated crew transportation systems will meet agency safety requirements and standards to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station from the United States, ending the agency's reliance on Russia for these transportation services.
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Overlooked is that Chase also has signed a contract to continue with First Marblehead.
So, at first using contract Russian trawlers, Joo Siang went looking for his company's growth in underutilized species.
It lost almost a half-million contract customers in the first quarter of 2011.
In February this year, we also launched the black pepper future, which was the first futures contract for the commodity.
The dispute overshadowed the decision of Jeffries to sign his first pro contract, joining promoter Dennis Hobson's Fight Academy set-up.
But the real contract had a different first page that was exclusively for work on StreetFax, Facebook alleged in its motion.
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The band won their first recording contract in 1967 and travelled to America a year later following success on underground radio stations.
The Canaries manager is set to add another youngster to his squad after offering 18-year-old forward Luke Daley his first professional contract.
So, at first using contract Russian trawlers, Joo Siang went looking for his company's growth in underutilized species nevertheless fit for human consumption.
The firm's first export contract will see its range of products being sold in Dubai and throughout the Middle East through Just Food International.
Motsepe's first sizable contract: Sweeping a marginally productive mine in the town of Orkney, owned by a division of 90-year-old mining behemoth Anglo American.
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