Washington is hardly unique in wanting a liberal world system of open trade, freedom of the seas, enforceable rules of contract and protection for foreign investment.
Some hit back by accusing Mr Guzman of nepotism: he gave a contract for a computer system to his son's company, though he denies any wrongdoing.
This is part of the contract that forms the basis for the patent system: in exchange for teaching the public how to practice the invention, a patent holder is granted a time-limited right to exclude others from doing so.
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In that case, White and the four other named plaintiffs alleged that a number of labor practices in the NFL violated antitrust law: the right of first refusal, the college draft system and the standard NFL contract, to name a few.
When companies compete to build military hardware, they expect that once a contract is won they will be the sole supplier of a weapon system for a decade or longer.
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Besides, in the welfare bill passed last summer, when the national system of income support was handed over to the states, the states were explicitly allowed to contract out this programme to firms who could decide who was eligible and who was not.
The extensive nature of the Code, including the contract-law-based mechanism for ensuring compliance with it, creates a system of accountability, albeit voluntary, over PSCs.
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D-Wave Systems announced today that it has signed a multi-year contract with Lockheed Martin that includes the sale of its D-Wave One system, which is the first commercially available quantum computer.
Pre-Sal Petroleo would also run a new contract system that allows the state to implement production-sharing agreements that would direct more of the oil windfall to the state than to the oil companies whenever the price of oil goes up.
The contract was split in two, with IBM and Serco given the job of getting a system in place at nine airports before last year's Olympics.
This reluctance to sign a contract had also stopped Icann putting in place mechanisms to help the smooth running of the domain name system, he said.
The resulting system is one in which every ridiculous sports contract and every hike in ESPN fees gets passed down to the lovers of antique shows and nature documentaries entirely uninterested in sports.
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