In March, the Bears said they were moving on from Urlacher when he didn't accept an incentive-based contract after the season.

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Stackhouse, 38, can remember the failed attempt by Percy "Master P" Miller, who negotiated a disastrous incentive-laden contract between Ricky Williams and the New Orleans Saints in 1999.

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On the plaintiff side, class-action lawyers have an incentive to hire inexpensive contract attorneys, work them for thousands of hours, and present those hours to the court at a much higher price as justification for their fees, which a judge must approve.

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Consequently, Claimant asserted breach of contract, failure to pay commissions, failure to pay compensation owed, and failure to honor an employment contract that specified quarterly incentive compensation of 25%.

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The higher the price of the contract, the stronger the incentive to curtail emissions.

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In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.

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If ICANN has a contract with the U.S. government before the public meeting it will not have the incentive to reach a consensus on controversial issues in the bylaws, the BWG said in a letter to the Commerce Department.

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