It is disgraceful that our council did not make any contingency plans for a catch-up service during this time.

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The Royal Navy works with what the military call Mission Command, which sets out the intent, strategy, resources, contingency and inspiration for any large-scale activity (it actually derives from Nelson's order of battle set out a month before Trafalgar).

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Facing massive losses from their real estate investments that had been sold to them as a Reg D Security, it is not hard to find and cultivate willing Claimants.. After all, the cases are taken on contingency and Claimants are looking for any source of funding for their losses.

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Your statement of work or contract for any business engagement should define the deliverable for each party, the payment terms, and what the contingency plan is if something were to go wrong.

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Like I said, there are on any number of occasions in any number of places in the world very, very detailed contingency plans for a lot of different things.

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We feel that investors and the market are extremely anxious to hear from the management on the progress of Sprint- Softbank merger in light of recent events. (see Three Ways The Sprint-Softbank Saga Could Play Out) We are also watching for updates on the Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) acquisition bid and if Sprint has any contingency plans to deal with potential loss of Clearwire.

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