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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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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It is unclear how much the Arab Spring revolutions have affected sales of the system, or the profitability of existing contracts.
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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The system allows them to sign contracts fixing the cost of their most important input for 12 months.
Disgruntled investors will find it hard to prove that the new system has broken these contracts, says Lianne Craig of Hausfeld, a law firm.
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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"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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Several programs including ODIN (Outsourcing Desktop Initiative for NASA), the U.K. Census and JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio System) were completed in the previous quarters, and the company was unable to replace these with contracts of equivalent value.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System was recently ensnared in a scandal involving former directors who received millions of dollars from money managers to line up contracts with the fund.
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.
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