Karen Graham was its first contract model, and she lasted 15 years (this before retouching).

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Eventually, a new social contract and economic model will emerge but until we have a consensus about what the contract is, we will not know what laws will support it.

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The rest of the world knows differently and the carrier model sits alongside the contract-free option quite nicely.

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Excluding non-cash expenses, COGS increased 4% year over year primarily due to an increase in customer premise equipment sales since the launch of our no contract retail model, which requires customers to purchase rather than lease devices, at the beginning of 2012.

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More are attracted by the French model: keep the assets in public hands, but contract out investment, operations and maintenance.

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The two-year contract is a tried-and-true model in the United States.

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Now operating under their own label, Paracadute Records, OK Go has served as a role-model for aspiring musicians questioning the traditional goal of a major label contract.

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The Justice Department's lawyer, Mr. Buterman, said the contract provision all but assured publishers would beg off the wholesale model, to avoid having to match lower prices and absorb the margin loss.

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In the new arrangement, called the "agency model, " the publisher set the retail price and the bookstore agreed per contract not to discount.

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Details of its announced production contract with a major U.S. manufacturer for an all-electric vehicle for the 2013 model year.

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