That sort of unbundling will take a while, due to a Byzantine system of contracts, so in the meantime, cable companies can embrace alternative methods of distribution by pushing high-speed internet access, as the Time Warner president said in the article.
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The rest it sucks into its system through contracts made with other diamond producers, and by dispatching its buyers, whose clipped British accents and pressed cotton shirts mark them out as the sort who might otherwise be employed by Her Majesty's secret service, to vacuum up diamonds that seep onto the market in such places as Angola and Congo-Kinshasa.
Poland's Regional Development Minister Elzbieta Bienkowska said the Polish system for awarding contracts "is running efficiently".
Disgruntled investors will find it hard to prove that the new system has broken these contracts, says Lianne Craig of Hausfeld, a law firm.
"In some ways he's a victim of his own success in that he helped build a system with these multiyear contracts, " says Stifel Nicolaus analyst Ben Mogil.
However, in order to take advantage of the sharp increase in iron ore prices in the past few years, miners decided to move to a quarterly contract system, whereby the contracts would be priced based on the average price in the preceding quarter.
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The system allows them to sign contracts fixing the cost of their most important input for 12 months.
In Asia, where gas is largely traded using a system of long-term contracts tied to the price of oil, prices are high.
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Driven by government-wide budget cuts, this reduction is expected to primarily affect acquisition planning, IT system development and program management contracts.
It is unclear how much the Arab Spring revolutions have affected sales of the system, or the profitability of existing contracts.
"When the government rescued AIG for the sake of the financial system, it inadvertently rescued all the contracts AIG entered into with executives, " he said.
These include improving public transport, establishing a national energy agency, creating a publicly-owned Bank of Wales, devolving the welfare system and ensuring more public-sector contracts go to local businesses.
In New York City, Chinese companies have won contracts to help renovate the subway system, refurbish the Alexander Hamilton Bridge over the Harlem River and build a new Metro-North train platform near Yankee Stadium.
Nasdaq would use Liffe's computer system - called Connect - to trade the futures contracts electronically.
Lockheed Martin received a contract in 2007 to extend the life of the missiles until at least 2040, with additional contracts doled out to upgrade the guidance system and refurbish the nuclear warheads the missile carries.
Floor trading volume dropped by half in the second quarter compared with last year, when Nymex agreed to start trading its contracts on the Merc's Globex electronic system.
In brief, we need to move to a system that (1) makes room for more flexible contracts in the labour market, (2) has a minimal welfare net for workers who are out of work, and (3) resolves labour market disputes more quickly.
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Barristers intend to debate the proposed changes to the criminal justice system, which will pave the way for lawyers to compete for contracts among other reforms.
No investor, foreign or domestic, will stay in Haiti long if they are unable to trust the legal system to safeguard their investments and give them redress for breaches of contracts.
The primary contract for the system was awarded to Northrup Grumman (NOC) though Verizon (VZ), which has a similar system to fight fraud, and IBM (IBM) also had contracts for various aspects of development and implementation.
The welfare system is being overhauled to let private firms and charities compete for more contracts.
In retrospect, Mr. Aki, 43, wonders whether the revised contracts would have been honored in India's byzantine legal system anyway.
It extends to the legal system, to business in general, to such things as public union contracts which are baldly exploitive, and to our personal relationships.
This is kind of a guilty until proven innocent system designed to expedite legal process and if you are really good at contracts and making the right kind of friends it can work for you.
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Another sprawling New York-area hospital, Montefiore Medicare Center, in the Bronx, said it braced for the law by cutting special contracts with insurers and government programs that would reward the health system for more efficient care.
For a variety of factors, given the global economic recovery, the increased interconnectedness and digitalization of the global financial system and the ballooning of financial markets, we could see volume of contracts increase even higher than our estimates.
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Those holding existing contracts that use LIBOR could face a sudden jolt when the new system is switched on.
Customers such as California's public university system and the San Francisco Giants baseball team have signed long-term outsourcing contracts with the firm to take care of their energy needs, from power and air conditioning to risk management.
Its shares are likely to soar even higher, now that the exchange is getting into energy and gold trading in a big way, with a 10-year agreement to trade the most popular oil, gold and other benchmark contracts of the New York Mercantile Exchange through its Globex electronic trading system.
That said, one big difference between the British system and Chapter 11 is that in Britain suppliers have the right to terminate contracts in the event of bankruptcy, quickly disrupting a firm's activities, whereas in America counterparties have to stay as long as they receive reasonable reassurance that they will be paid.
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