Less grimly, electric currents have been used for years by physical therapists to make muscles contract as a way of stimulating and strengthening them.
But does the government allowing the man to enter into this implicit contract make him less free?
Brown said he has told Karzai to make a "contract with the Afghan people" against which they can measure his success.
In 1982 Jabil went into high-tech with a contract to make add-on boards for the IBM Personal Computer unit in Boca Raton, Fla.
But what if the real green answer is that certain industries have to contract - make less glass, produce fewer ventilation units and suchlike.
It seems as though IDT, a company in Belvidere, Illinois, had been asked to bid on a contract to make protective barriers for troops.
This month TDSi won a contract to make control equipment, readers and software for 12 subway stations in Beijing, having already supplied kit for metro systems in Shanghai and Tianjin.
Last week, auto dealership magnate Roger Penske's bid to buy the Saturn brand fell apart just before the deal was finalized when a contract to make vehicles was rejected by the Renault board.
He added that there would be clauses in the Pistorius-Nike contract that make clear when the athlete's behavior can allow the company to cut its ties -- and law-breaking would often be among the reasons.
Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.
Contract manufacturers already make most of the products branded by such companies as Dell, Cisco and Apple Computer.
Basic rules of contract and property make all kind of exchanges in cyberspace more efficient.
"As in a medical trial, you want to have customers randomly assigned between the two contract types to make an objective comparison, " he explains.
The lovely thing about the enterprise software industry: highly profitable, predictable maintenance contract revenues that make the giants of the industry look like utilities with upside.
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Bresnan, Bopara, Luke Wright and Michael Yardy join him among those players whose performances automatically trigger the award of a full contract if they make enough appearances for the England team.
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It said its China Railway 15th Bureau unit is in talks with the team over building a soccer stadium and that it will make an announcement when a contract is signed.
But universities are clearly becoming desperate, and the arrival of at least four firms of ambulance-chasing lawyers keen to persuade students to sue for breach of contract can only make them more so.
Will the industry sponsor or the communications company make public the details of their contract?
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This common law concept relieves a party from fulfilling a contract if unforeseen circumstances make it impossible to do so.
The turnaround actually started this off-season, when Wright signed the contract that likely will make him a Met for life.
New York designated LHP Clay Rapada for assignment to make room for Overbay, whose contract was selected from the minors.
Ravens GM, Ozzie Newsome, and his assistant GM, Eric DeCosta, are very good at what they do, and maybe they can make a big long-term contract work.
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The settlement deals with so-called mortgage put-back claims that investors believe Bank of America must make good on because Countrywide breached contract provisions regarding the quality and type of loans that backed the securities.
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If banks benefit from permanent state protection against collapse, then perhaps we need to make explicit that there is a contract between banks and state that they should never ever take steps to reduce their tax burden.
And to share news about products agencies are looking for, such as the search for computer desks by the military academy at West Point, or advice about how to make your road to a government contract easier from staff at the government agencies.
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Sharing celebrity foibles is interesting, but signing a contract does not an anecdote make.
She demanded that Armstrong honor her contract and allow her to make an example of Arrington.
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People think about their next contract rather than how to make the enterprise great.
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His main priority, he told the panel, is to make sure the company delivers on its contract.
While the company is privately held, the Iraq contract has been estimated to make up one-third to one-half of its business.
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