had to honor contracts. But Thursday,the House of Representatives voted to place a ninety percent tax on those bonuses at A.I.G.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

We also have standardized contracts that are traded on exchanges and they're called futures contracts.

也有在交易所中交易的,标准化合同,它们被称做期货合约

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they tend to prefer to bring people on for short-term contracts,

他们都通常喜欢雇佣短期合同工，

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Some are philosophically based. Some do work for the government on government contracts addressing particular issues.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

The options are a very useful technology for managing risks and I think that we'll see a rapid--Over the next few decades, we'll see rapid expansion in the scope of options contracts traded on the exchanges.

期权是管理风险的,一个非常有用的技术,我认为在往后的几十年,交易市场上,我们将会看到期权合同的迅速发展

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To renegotiate or repudiate the institution's contracts and prevent certain financial contracts with the institution from being terminated on account of conservatorship or receivership,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.24