Some farmers who are not in the program have begun adopting organic farming techniques in hopes of joining small organic cooperatives that are beginning to negotiate long-term contracts with European organic and fair-trade wholesalers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

They're the ones--there are other people who have contracts with the company, like the employees, but the employees are not shareholders; they are receiving salary or something else.

还有其他,和公司签订了合同的人,像员工,但员工不是股东,他们拿工资或其他东西

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AIG chief Liddy has asserted that bonuses the company paid were necessary to retain the best and brightest talent, an assertion he expressed directly to U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a letter, adding that bonus contracts with employees were finalized well before Congress approved financial bail out funds in late 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

It said states cannot interfere with private contracts creating corporations.

VOA: special.2010.03.05