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  • The corn-growers and the revenue collectors were ruined by exorbitant imposts or by the iniquitous cancelling of contracts; temples and private houses were robbed of their works of art; and the rights of Roman citizens were disregarded.

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  • As the sun loses heat it contracts, and every pair of particles in the sun are nearer to each other after the contraction than they were before.

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  • Contracts for large or important works or for the supply of large amounts of goods are usually put out to tender in order to secure the lowest price.

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  • Under the present constitution they are "fully emancipated from all disability on account of coverture," and are placed on an equality with their husbands in acquiring and disposing of property and in making contracts relative thereto.

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  • As these were insufficient to give employment to all the prisoners, some were put to work on Yazoo Delta plantations on partnership contracts.

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  • Under the revised code (1905) a wife may hold property which she had acquired before marriage free from any obligation of her husband, but in general she is not permitted to make contracts affecting either her personal or real estate without the written consent of her husband.

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  • When the spiracles are open and the body contracts, air is expired.

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  • But, with advancing civilization and the consequent increase in the number of the conditions to be imposed on both parties, leases became mutual contracts, bilateral in form.

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  • Again we must distinguish between the " future " contracts for the delivery of a particular kind of cotton, which may be entered into by spinners and their brokers, and are real purchases in the sense that the spinners want delivery of the cotton referred to, and the "futures," which always relate 1 The Cotton Trade of Great Britain, by Thomas Ellison, p. 186.

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  • On first thoughts it would seem desirable that all spinners should buy cotton outright to cover their contracts, but on second thoughts the social disadvantage of their doing so becomes apparent.

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  • But what, it may be inquired, is the value of " futures " relating to " middling " cotton to a broker whose contracts with spinners are not in " middling " cotton?

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  • The province of the court included all acts and contracts between burgesses, and extended to criminal cases in which burgesses were involved.

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  • There is no penitentiary; the convicts are hired to the one highest bidder who contracts for their labour, and who undertakes, moreover, to lease all other persons convicted during the term of the lease, and sub-leases the prisoners.

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  • It is due to the memory of the judges of Lord Coke's time to say that, at any rate as regards contracts made in partibus transmarinis, the same rule appears to have been applied at least as early as 1544, the judges then holding that "for actions transitory abroad action may lie at common law."

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  • The civil and religious contracts took place at Paris early in April, and during the honeymoon, spent at the palace of Compiegne, the emperor showed the greatest regard for his wife.

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  • There were treaties between states for the extradition of fugitives, and contracts of mutual assurance between individuals against their loss by flight.

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  • They could therefore supply their American possessions with slaves only by contracts with other powers.

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  • His carelessness in keeping account of his receipts and expenditures, and the differences between himself and Arthur Lee regarding the contracts with Beaumarchais, eventually led, in November 1777, to his recall to face charges, of which Lee's complaints formed the basis.

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  • It is not expected that military expenditure can be much reduced, except in the direction of supply contracts, which have been the cause in the past of iniquitous waste of means.

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  • In the inscription recording the contracts for its building it is called the Thymele; and this name may give the clue to its purpose; it was probably the idealized architectural representative of a primitive pit of sacrifice, such as may still be seen in the Asclepianum at Athens.

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  • At Shigatse it flows in a wide extended bed with many channels, but contracts again at Chushul, where it is no wider than it is at Janglache, i.e.

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  • As cooling progresses the glassy rock contracts and strain phenomena appear in consequence.

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  • It always remained a characteristic feature of serfdom, but was limited and fixed, either by contracts or concessions from the lord (taille abonnee), or by the customs.

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  • Barrett in 1882 that a nickel bar contracts when magnetized, nothing of importance was added by Joule's results for nearly forty years.

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  • For steel which has been made redhot, suddenly cooled, and then let down to a yellow temper, the critical value of the magnetizing force is smaller than for steel which is either softer or harder; it is indeed so small that the metal contracts like nickel even under weak magnetizing forces, without undergoing any preliminary extension that can be detected.

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  • Now nickel contracts instead of lengthening when it is magnetized, and an experiment by Knott showed, as he expected, that caeteris paribus a nickel wire twists in a sense opposite to that in which iron twists.

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  • Further, although iron lengthens in fields of moderate strength, it contracts in strong ones; and if the wire is stretched, contraction occurs with smaller magnetizing forces than if it is unstretched.

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  • In these circumstances there grew up in Rome a class of wealthy ' men, whose sole occupation it was to amass large fortunes by speculation,' and who found a most lucrative field of enterprise ' in state contracts and the farming of the public revenues.

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  • All contracts of lease, exploitation of forests, waters and natural riches are cancelled.

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  • The old system of locating immigrants in colonies, or colonial nuclei, which involved an enormous outlay of money with but slight benefit to the country, has been superseded by a system of locating the immigrants on the large plantations under formal contracts.

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  • In some of the coffee districts these contracts have resulted very profitably to the Italian labourers.

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  • The result was that the national treasury became burdened with a heavy annual interest charge, payable abroad in gold, which did not tend to diminish, and had a long period to run before the expiration of the contracts.

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  • It contains, in addition to the ancient national records, adequate accommodation, in fireproof chambers, for all Scottish title-deeds, entails, contracts and mortgages, and for general statistics, including those of births, deaths and marriages.

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  • The principal facilities granted by the state are, exemption of taxation for a determined period of years, reduced railway fares for the goods manufactured, placing of government contracts, the grant of subsidies and loans and the foundation of industrial schools for the training of engineers and of skilled workmen.

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  • He had to be content with armistices, reconciliations and matrimonial contracts, because the great dignitaries of the state, men like the palatine Laszlo Garai, Count Ulrich of Cilli, and the voivode of Transylvania, Mihaly Ujlaky, thwarted in every way the novas homo whom they hated and envied.

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  • During these years Venezuela had been pursuing the dangerous policy of granting interest guarantees on the construction of railways by foreign corporations, which not only brought the government into conflict with them on account of defaulted payments, but also through disputed interpretations of contracts and alleged arbitrary acts on the part of government officials.

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  • He then took lodgings with an agent of his, one Demoulin, in an out-of-the-way part of Paris, and was, for some time at least, as much occupied with contracts, speculation and all sorts of means of gaining money as with literature.

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  • In this the stoping contracts run vertically, the roof in the working-places, and later to control the fall of the roof while the pillars are mined.

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  • The first vortex dilates and moves slower, while the second contracts and shoots through the first; after which the motion is reversed periodically, as if in a game of leap-frog.

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  • On the private law side 18 clauses, apply to rights of property and possession, 13 to succession and family law, 37 to contracts, including marriage when treated as an act of sale; 18 touch on civil procedure.

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  • The older law of real property, of succession, of contracts, the customary tariffs of fines, were mainly regulated by folk-right; the reeves employed by the king and great men were supposed to take care of local and rural affairs according to folk-right.

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  • Their power extended to the Mediterranean, and we possess a large number of contemporaneous monuments in the shape of contracts and similar business documents, as well as chronological tables, which belong to their reigns.

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  • The whole field of labour and contracts was covered by minute regulations, which, good in theory, were absurd in practice, and which failed altogether, but not until labour had been disorganized for several years.

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  • Everything is air at different degrees of density, and under the influence of heat, which expands, and of cold, which contracts its volume, it gives rise to the several phases of existence.

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  • On the 27th of October 1787 Cutler and Major Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), who had joined him in the negotiations, signed two contracts; one was for the absolute purchase for the Ohio Company, at 663 cents an acre, of 1,500,000 acres of land lying along the north bank of the Ohio river, from a point near the site of the Democrat.

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  • Tenders were strictly enforced in letting government property and contracts; a largely increased revenue was applied on water supply, drainage and other works.

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  • Till the 15th century the Jews usually followed the era of the Seleucidae or of Contracts.

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  • By the Jews it was called the Era of Contracts, because the Syrian governors compelled them to make use of it in civil contracts; the writers of the books of Maccabees, call it the Era of Kings.

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  • His administration of the war department during the Spanish-American War was severely criticized for extravagance in army contracts, for unpreparedness, and for general inefficiency, charges which he answered in his The Spanish-American War (1901).

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  • It dropped to 470,000 in 1909 owing to loss of railway contracts.

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  • A wife may hold property and make contracts as if she were single, and neither husband nor wife is accountable for the acts of the other.

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  • This question has arisen chiefly in contracts for works, which frequently contain a provision that the engineer shall be the arbitrator, in any dispute between the contractor and his own employer.

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  • But on the east of the Anambaruin-ula it once more contracts to two main ranges, the more southerly being that which Przhevalsky called the Humboldt Range (crossed by a pass at 13,200 ft.).

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  • It is the industrial and trading quarter of the city, and the seat of the great fair of the " Contracts," the transference of which from Dubno in 1797 largely stimulated the commercial prosperity of Kiev.

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  • He corresponds directly with the other Barbary states; draws up the budget, and contracts loans on behalf of the colony.

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  • Nearly all geckos are nocturnal and the pupil contracts into a vertical slit, except in a few diurnal kinds, e.g.

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  • So the water when it is exorcised and becomes baptismal, not only drives out the evil principle, but also contracts a power of hallowing."

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  • Ordinary private law, including property, contracts, torts, family relations, offences, civil and criminal procedure.

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  • On the other hand, the ligament h acts upon the short arm formed by the umbonal ridge of the shells; whenever the adductors relax, the elastic substance of the ligament contracts, and the shells gape.

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  • In 1897 this was supplanted by the contract system, by which a prison commission accepted contracts for convict labour, but the prisoners were cared for by state officials.

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  • Peck (6 Cranch 87) that such a rescindment as that in the new state constitution was illegal, on the ground that a state cannot pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts; and at an expense of more than four millions of dollars the Federal government ultimately extinguished all claims to the lands.

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  • On the 21st of July the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, and a section of the state constitution (which denied the power of state courts to entertain against any resident of the state suits founded on contracts existing on the 15th of June 1865) was repealed by the legislature in pursuance of the congressional " Omnibus Bill " of the 25th of June 1868, and as evidence of the restoration of Georgia to the Union the congressmen were seated on the 25th of July in that year.

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  • In addition to these three departments, standing committees exist to take a collective view of such matters as contracts, concessions, mineral and other leases, and patronage.

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  • A remarkable point in the Lancashire yarn trade is the looseness of the contracts between spinner and manufacturer.

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  • These actions of the state assembly against the college and the bank probably were immediate causes for the insertion in the Federal Constitution (adopted by the convention in Philadelphia in 1787) of the clause (proposed by James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a friend of the college and of the bank) forbidding any state to pass a law impairing the obligation of contracts.

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  • In 1905 and subsequent years, however, the degree of employment in German yards increased to such an extent, principally owing to the placing of the Admiralty contracts with private builders, that the more urgent orders for mercantile vessels were placed abroad.

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  • Greenland lies to the north of Fritz's curve of maximum auroral frequency, and the suggestion has been made that the zone of maximum frequency expands to the south as sun-spots increase, and contracts again as they diminish, the number of auroras at a given station increasing or diminishing as the zone of maximum frequency approaches to or recedes from it.

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  • In 1906 contracts were made to reconstruct some of these lines for electric traction.

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  • Twelve medical and two veterinary officers are also employed departmentally, as well as officers acting as directors of supply, &c. Since the assumption of command by the third sirdar, Colonel (afterwards Lord) Kitchener, the ordnance, supply and engineer services have been separately administered, and a financial secretary is charged with the duty of preparing the budget, making contracts, &c. The total annual expenditure is 500,000.

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  • During the XXVth and XXVIth Dynasties silver of the treasury of Harshafe (at Heracleopolis Magna) was commonly prescribed in contracts, and in the reign of Darius we hear of silver of the treasury of Ptah (at Memphis).

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  • Marriage contracts are not found earlier than the XXVIth Dynasty.

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  • The native contracts with the wife gave to her child all the husbands property, and divorce or separation was provided for, entailing forfeiture of the dowry.

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  • Sales of slaves occur in the XXVth Dynasty, and contracts of servitude are found in the XXVIth Dynasty and in the reign of Darius, appearing as if the consent of the slave was then required.

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  • Or again, contracts might be made with a neighboring temple, the priesthood of which bound itself to reserve for the contracting party some portion of the offerings that had already been used for the divine cult.

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  • In spite of all the precautions they took and the contracts they made, the Egyptians could never quite rid themselves of the dread that their tombs might decay and their cult be neglected; and they sought therefore to obtain by prayers and threats what they feared they might lose altogether.

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  • Next followed, in the Zeitschrift fr gyptische Sprache und Alterlhumskunde, studies on the Old Kingdom inscription of Una, and the Middle Kingdom contracts of Assiut, as well as on an Old Coptic text of the 3rd century AD.

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  • Hand-riveting on large contracts has been wholly displaced by power-riveting machines.

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  • His administration of this office at a critical time was marked by his accustomed energy, but unfortunately also by partiality in the letting of government contracts, which brought about his resignation at Lincoln's request in January 1862 and his subsequent censure by the House of Representatives.

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  • As the simple star radiates heat and contracts, it retains its angular momentum; when this is too great for the spheroidal form to persist, the star may ultimatel y separate into two components, which are driven farther and farther apart by their mutual tides.

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  • The rules for the interpretation of treaties are not so different from those applicable to contracts in private law as to need here a separate discussion.

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  • Settlers intending to occupy such lands must satisfy the state that they have entered into contracts with the irrigating company for a sufficient water-right and a perpetual interest in the irrigation works.

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  • But between 1900 and 1905 contracts were signed for the construction of three highways, leading respectively from Matagalpa, from Nueva Segovia and from the Pis Pis mining district to the head of steam navigation on the Segovia, about 160 m.

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  • Contracts for additional lines were signed between 1900 and 1905.

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  • Reference is now to be found in most English contracts of carriage and contracts of insurance, to these rules, as intended to govern the adjustment of G.A.

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  • Like contracts contrary to public policy, they depend to a great extent for their illegality upon the discretion of the court in the particular case.

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  • Questions of railways, of franchises, union scales and the recognition of the union in contracts, questions of sheep and cattle interests, politics, civic, legal and industrial questions, all entered into the economic troubles of these years.

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  • The excavations at Senkereh were peculiarly successful in the discovery of inscribed remains, consisting of clay tablets, chiefly contracts, but including also an important mathematical tablet and a number of tablets of a description almost peculiar to Senkereh, exhibiting in basrelief scenes of everyday life.

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  • The evils must be partly met by the general principles applicable to all contracts (the fitness of the contracting parties, &c.) and partly by provisions for bankruptcy.

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  • Contracts between private individuals are of course within the provision.

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  • Believing that he had now secured the support of the majority in congress on behalf of any measures he decided to put forward, the new president initiated a policy of heavy expenditure on public works, the building of schools, and the strengthening of the naval and military forces of the republic. Contracts were given out to the value of 6,000,000 for the construction of railways in the southern districts; some 10,000,000 dollars were expended in the erection of schools and colleges; three cruisers and two sea-going torpedo boats were added to the squadron; the construction of the naval port at Talcahuano was actively pushed forward; new armament was purchased for the infantry and artillery branches of the army, and heavy guns were acquired for the purpose of permanently and strongly fortifying the neighbourhoods of Valparaiso, Talcahuano and Iquique.

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  • Contracts were given by favour and not by merit, and the progress made in the construction of the new public works was far from satisfactory.

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  • Fifteen or sixteen years later it was repeatedly pointed out to the authorities that the revenues from the customs of the Persian Gulf would be much increased if control were exercised at all the ports, particularly the small ones where smuggling was being carried on on a large scale, and in 1883 the shah decided upon the acquisition of four or five steamers, one to be purchased yearly, and instructed the late Au Kuli Khan, Mukhber ad-daulah, minister of telegraphs, to obtain designs and estimates from British and German firms. The tender of a well-known German firm at Bremerhaven was finally accepted, and one of the ministers sons then residing in Berlin made the necessary contracts for the first steamer.

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  • Its central core of Lower Carboniferous rock is broadly displayed towards the north, while southward it contracts; on either side lie the younger rocks, the coal-fields, the Permian strata and the Triassic formations, the last-named, while sweeping round the southern extremity of the Carboniferous axis of the uplift from its eastern and western flanks, spread out in a large sheet over the midland counties.

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  • Every district council may enter into such contracts as are necessary for carrying into execution the various purposes of the Public Health Acts.

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  • Even when in the course of time landownership was appropriated by the crown, the ecclesiastical corporations and the nobles, the tillers of the land retained their personal freedom and were considered to be farmers holding their plots under contracts.

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  • In 1903 Congress adopted a gold dollar of 1.672 grammes weight .900 fine (equal to the U.S. gold dollar) as the monetary standard created a redemption bureau for the withdrawal of the paper circulation, prohibited the further issue of such currency, and authorized free contracts in any currency.

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  • Previous to that time the law required all contracts to specify payments in paper currency.

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  • Advancing north and east from their base at Cape Town the colonists gradually acquired - partly by so-called contracts, partly by force - all the land of the Hottentots, large numbers of whom they slew.

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  • When, as may happen in dry seasons, the puddle wall remains long above the water level, it parts with moisture and contracts.

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  • The solidarity of clan and fine in their respective spheres, the provisions of the system, the simple rural life, and the prevalence of barter and payments in kind, left comparatively little occasion for contracts between individuals.

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  • Contracts relating to other kinds of property are more numerous.

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  • The Aire-Coisring presided over most of the contracts of the common people.

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  • Treaties and occasional very important contracts were made "blood-covenants" and inviolable by drawing a drop of blood from the little finger of each of the contracting parties, blending this with water, and both drinking the mixture out of the same cup. The forms of legal evidence were pledges, documents, witnesses and oaths.

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  • It was frequently of consequence in relation to contracts and other clan affairs; but it emerges most clearly in connexion with crime.

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  • At the State Prison practically one half the prisoners are employed on contracts.

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  • The narrow straits in which the waterway connecting the Mediterranean with the Black Sea contracts, both to the north and to the south of the city, could be rendered impassable to hostile fleets approaching from either direction, while on the landward side the line of defence was so short that it could be strongly fortified, and held against large numbers by a comparatively small force.

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  • At Tuttlingen it contracts and the hills crowd close to the banks, while ruins of castles crown almost every possible summit.

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  • In mercantile contracts in computing the period of a month the day from which the time is to begin to run is excluded, but in sentences of imprisonment the day on which the sentence begins is included, so that the numerically corresponding day in the month in which the sentence expires would be excluded.

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  • The practice of giving land as a beneficium to a grantee who swore personal allegiance to the grantor had persisted, and by his capitularies Charlemagne had made these personal engagements, these contracts of immunityhitherto not transferable, nor even for life, but quite conditionalregular, legal, even obligatory and almost indissoluble.

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  • By contracts of pariage the clergy claimed and obtained the kings protection even in places beyond the kings jurisdiction, to their common advantage.

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  • His efforts to reconstruct the Spanish navy were attacked both by the apostles of retrenchment and by those who saw in the shipbuilding contracts an undue favoring of the foreigner; the Marine Industries Protection Act was denounced as favoring the large shipowners and exporters at the expense of the smaller men; the Compulsory Education Act as a criminal assault on the rights of the family.

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  • Among the new manufactories were a shipbuilding establishment at Groton near New London, which undertook contracts for the United States government, and a compressed-air plant near Norwich.

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  • It has at various times granted divorces, confirmed faulty titles, annulled decisions of the justices of the peace, and validated contracts against which judgment by default had been secured.

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  • Neither husband nor wife acquires by marriage any interest in the property of the other; the earnings of the wife are her sole property and she has the right to make contracts as if unmarried.

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  • He hadn't believed her death inevitable, and only bought contracts on those he perceived as potential threats.

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  • Farmers that buy these seeds are required to sign stringent contracts and are not allowed to save seeds or use other agrochemicals.

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  • It contracts no entangling alliances with any sect of theorists, dreamers or philosophers.

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  • I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

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  • Most standard form contracts provide for disputes to be resolved by arbitration.

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  • Contracts often include arbitration clauses nominating an arbitrator in advance.

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  • And in fact almost 60% of the investment under signed PFI contracts in the UK will score on the government's balance sheet.

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  • The Germans are already beavering away, signing up ten year contracts to supply Poland with a variety of agricultural produce.

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  • Scottish biofuel will consider offering long term guaranteed price contracts for the supply of energy crop.

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  • Pilots on part - time contracts would be paid the loyalty bonus pro rata.

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  • Thus, linear causality is the bedrock of technology and social contracts.

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  • However, the benefits of accredited certification extend far beyond bidding for new contracts.

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  • Employers will also be barred from including waiver clauses in temporary contracts, which have the effect of removing rights to claim unfair dismissal.

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  • We signed the contracts, we should honor them in full!

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  • You will deal with spot orders and negotiate long term contracts.

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  • A supplier had a large order book of fixed price contracts.

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  • The SHO grade will cease to exist on 31 July 2007, but short-term contracts can be issued up until that date.

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  • Financial long-term contracts could limit this problem through the establishment of a market for financial futures or options.

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  • Are there any procedures to support research staff approaching the end of fixed-term contracts?

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  • For example, salary commitments relating to employment contracts are to be excluded.

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  • Such embedded derivatives are brought within the derivative contracts rules.

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  • Agency contracts may have a definite or indefinite duration.

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  • We would request that contracts of employment for eligible employees are changed to reflect this.

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  • In the even newer model, tricky points of law, interpretation of contracts, promissory estoppel were pinged at the odd QS adjudicator.

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  • Registration does not in itself guarantee contracts but your details will be available for consideration should the need for consultancy expertise arise.

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  • In some cases, productivity gains had allowed contracts to be delivered at the same quality of service while maintaining the price.

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  • A stronger greenback makes commodity contracts such as metals more expensive for buyers using other currencies.

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  • Well honed account management skills which lead to repeat contracts.

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  • Will he tell us which complete imbecile drew up the contracts governing the surgical center?

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  • We supply many residential customers but also have contracts in the commercial, retail, leisure and local authority market sectors throughout Scotland.

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  • Moreover, handing over 30-year contracts to private firms is pure madness.

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  • All contracts are drawn up in front of a public notary, where the buyer's lawyer must be present.

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  • In turn, these offices can refer contracts considered objectionable to the 661 Committee for rejection or passage.

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  • Is there a point at which fixed-term contracts must become open-ended?

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  • In the case of housing investment programs, typical contracts would be for more than £ 2 million if centrally procured.

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  • Please see Budget News for more details on transitional provisions where contracts were entered into before 17 March 2005.

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  • If a pregnant woman contracts rubella it can cause serious birth defects to her unborn baby.

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  • Recently, a significant portion has been sold to some of the larger sawmills on the basis of long term contracts.

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  • By that reasoning, the recent Emercom contracts were worth $ 1.8 million in illegal surcharges.

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  • The following contracts are being put out to competitive tender.

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  • Act like an obsessively tidy person - until you've exchanged contracts neatly fold and put away everything!

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  • Under the unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 a contract deemed unfair may be completely void and unenforceable against a consumer.

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  • Employees on fixed-term contracts are no longer able to enter into redundancy waiver agreements.

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  • If carriers wanted to agree sea waybill type contracts, they should not use bill of lading forms.

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  • They are just temporary workers with very short term contracts.

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  • In important industrial towns tribunals called conseils de prudhommes are instituted to deal with disputes &tween employers and employees, actions arising out of contracts of apprenticeship and the like.

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  • Many contracts contain the proviso that in case of future dispute the parties would abide by " the decision of the king."

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  • A conciliation bureau and a jury are elected to deal with disputes concerning wages, hours of work, labor contracts, &c., and have power to settle the disputes, without appeal, whenever the amounts involved do not exceed 1/28.

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  • When, at the beginning of March 1876, these contracts were submitted to parliament, a group of Tuscan deputies, under Cesare Correnti, joined the opposition, and on the 18th of March took advantage of a chance motion concerning the date of discussion of an interpellation on the grist tax to place the Minghetti cabinet in a minority.

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  • Jeremiah Mason (1768-1848), a lawyer of the first rank, Jeremiah Smith and Webster appeared for the college, and argued that these acts were invalid because they were not within the general scope of the legislature's power, because they violated provisions of the state constitution and because they violated the clause of the Federal Constitution which prohibits a state from impairing the obligation of contracts but the court decided against them.

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  • Saunders, heard in 1824 and reheard in 1827, in which the question was the validity or invalidity of the insolvent laws of the several states, Webster argued that the clause prohibiting a state from impairing the obligation of contracts applied to future as well as to past contracts, but the court decided against him.

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  • The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

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  • In this latter passage Lord Coke records how, notwithstanding an agreement asserted to have been made in 1575 between the justices of the King's Bench and the judge of the admiralty, the judges of the common law courts successfully maintained their right to prohibit suits in admiralty upon contracts made on shore, or within havens, or creeks, or tidal rivers, if the waters were within the body of any county, wheresoever such contracts were broken, for torts committed within the body of a county, whether on land or water, and for contracts made in parts beyond the seas.

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  • In the colonies of more than one European country, after the prohibition of the slave trade, attempts were made to replace it by a system of importing labourers of the inferior races under contracts for a somewhat lengthened term; and this was in several instances found to degenerate into a sort of legalized slave traffic. About 1867 we began to hear of a system of this kind which was in operation between the South Sea Islands and New Caledonia and the white settlements in Fiji.

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  • Duties on profession (temettu) consist (a) of a fixed duty leviable at rates declared in a schedule forming part of the special law (Dec. 8, 1907) regulating the tax, and (b) of a proportional duty at the rate of 3% on the value of buildings occupied by companies or individuals in the prosecution of their business; of 3% on salaries (subject to certain deductions) of employes of such companies and individuals; and on government contractors and revenue farmers, at the rate of 3% of 10% of the value of contracts filled and of revenues farmed.

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  • An inscription has been found recording the contracts for building this temple; it dates from s? ??

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  • The university is supported by a state tax of 0.23 mills per dollar on the taxed property of the state, by special appropriations from the state (for " deficiency," for School of Mines, and for salaries of teachers in the department of mines and engineering), by the interest on state bonds and land contracts purchased with the proceeds of Federal land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, by Federal appropriations under the Morrill Act of 1890 and the Hatch Act, and by students' fees, &c. the total of this income was estimated in1906-1907at 8628,500.

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  • By this enactment it is made possible, where more than 20 workers are employed, for an elected council to cooperate in securing the welfare of the workers, to see to the due execution of contracts and agreements, to settle disputes, and to take part in the management of philanthropic institutions.

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  • A good case for the examination of the question as to whether blood enters the pericardium of Lamellibranchs, or escapes from the foot, or by the renal organs when the animal suddenly contracts, is furnished by the Ceratisolen legumen, which has red blood-corpuscles.

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  • The importation of coolies is controlled by an elaborate system of legislation, which provides for the registration of contracts, the medical inspection of coolies during the journey, and supervision over rates of pay, &c., on the gardens.

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  • If it act not upon the terms but upon the remedy, it impairs the obligation if it purport to be retrospective, but it is valid so far as it applies to subsequent contracts.

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  • The constitution provides that the property and pecuniary rights of every married woman, at the time of her marriage, or afterwards, acquired by gift, devise or inheritance, shall not be subject to the debts or contracts of the husband; and that laws shall be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.

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  • That the members of this " city of Zeus " should observe their contracts, abstain from mutual harm, combine to protect each other from injury, were obvious points of natural law; while again, it was clearly necessary to the preservation of human society that its members should form sexual unions, produce children, and bestow care on their rearing and training.

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  • Still a general observance was involved in the idea of a natural law as a " dictate of right reason indicating the agreement or disagreement of an act with man's rational and social nature "; and we may observe that it was especially necessary to assume such a general observance in the case of contracts, since it was by an " express or tacit pact " that the right of property (as distinct from the mere right to noninterference during use) was held by him to have been instituted.

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  • Now, however, more and more wealth is tied up in intangibles such as intellectual property, patents, brands, media, and contracts.

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  • He gave foreign companies 180 days to renegotiate existing contracts with the government, or leave the country.

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  • Pre-emption rights ' renunciation agreement will be valid only for rental contracts that exceed 5 years time period.

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  • Many of the contracts are approved individually by a Security Council sanctions committee, any one of whose 15 members can block them.

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  • The state of insolvency has no effect on contracts of employment, in the absence of a stipulation in the contract to the contrary.

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  • However oil trading contracts have been terminated by the Iraqis, lessening the sympathy vote from the Russians.

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  • The service contracts of all directors with the company are terminable on 12 months ' notice.

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  • Act like an obsessively tidy person - until you 've exchanged contracts neatly fold and put away everything !

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  • This ends the two tier workforce for future PPP contracts.

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  • Toucan broadband contracts are valid for 12 months, so you will have to cover the remaining subscription costs if you have to cancel.

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  • The group had also issued an ultimatum letter to world leaders, demanding they void all contracts with Iran by June 16.

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  • Under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 a contract deemed unfair may be completely void and unenforceable against a consumer.

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  • In order to determine periodic unprotected tenancies and restricted contracts, notice to quit must first be served.

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  • For many reasons, it is usual to pay a deposit on an exchange of contracts.

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  • When your uterus contracts, it cuts off the oxygen supply to your placenta.

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  • Blood is forced out of the left side of the heart The right ventricle contracts.

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  • This forces blood into the left atrium right atrium left ventricle right ventricle which then contracts.

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  • What type of contracts lead to a win-win outcome?

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  • However, the award of import and export contracts - both legal and illegal - has yielded some dividends at crucial times.

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  • There are many sample nanny contracts that can be found online.

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  • For example, finalists sometimes win modeling contracts with premiere agencies, as well as scholarship money and more.

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  • Most of these contracts obligate you to pay a large balloon payment if you return a vehicle in early.

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  • Once the price and terms of the sale have been agreed, a notary is instructed to carry out checks on the property to ensure there are no liabilities or charges against it and to prepare contracts.

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  • Once an animal is bitten and contracts rabies, the virus will begin to spread through the nerves of the animal and to the brain.

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  • Businesses will not pay hidden fees and there are no long-term contracts for using the service.

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  • It's especially important to get everything in writing and make sure that you read all contracts carefully.

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  • Flooring features - Bamboo flooring expands and contracts less than hardwood.

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  • Also, most larger retailers have contracts with certain paint manufacturers, so all brands will not be available at every store.

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  • Label the folders accordingly, for example, tax-deductible expenses, contracts and bills to be paid.

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  • Keep a list either virtual or paper of vendors, sub-contractors, suppliers, and other retailers you want to consider or have signed contracts with for goods or services.

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  • In addition to advancing your creative side, the book offers advice on licensing your work, cultivating repeat customers and negotiating contracts.

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  • Most contracts include a provision for cancellation of services which, depending on the closeness of your wedding, may include forfeiture of your initial deposit or a portion of it.

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  • Remember to read over contracts carefully and confirm all the details.

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  • You can officially vote, drive a car without restrictions and enter into legal and binding contracts.

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  • No word on whether the other judges' contracts have been renegotiated, but Abdul's managers are confirming that producers for the show have not approached her for a pay hike.

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  • Focused lessons involve teaching prospective planners how to budget with clients, choose entertainment for an event, better understand a client's needs, throw an engagement party or shower, write contracts, and draft a business plan.

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  • He also assists with writing legal documents, contracts, and trusts.

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  • If you have strong connections to family and friends, you may not want to set sail for months at a time (contracts are typically 6-10 months long with little time off).

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  • Cruise lines have an ongoing need for employees as contracts end, new ships set sail, and sailing routes are adjusted.

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  • Most cruise lines spell out their liability - or lack thereof - explicitly in passenger ticket documentation or cruise ship job contracts.

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  • In fact, Disney Cruise Line crew members work more than 70 hours a week with shifts all seven days during their three to eight month contracts.

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  • Another pitfall to working on a Caribbean cruise line is that most job contracts run approximately six months.

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  • For the most part, any pet that contracts this virus will have to endure the hacking cough, runny nose and gagging until the respiratory infection runs its course.

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  • Once your dog contracts heartworms, the treatment to eliminate those worms can be just as life-threatening as the infestation itself, although your pet will die without treatment.

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  • Wood expands and contracts, so starting with your materials at the same temperature as the room will help you avoid nasty surprises later.

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  • This can prevent damage to the flooring if it expands or contracts.

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  • Many of these contracts allow you to write in any special requests for your project.

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  • In fact, projects completed through the HomeProHub network are usually 8-10% lower than contracts completed outside the network.

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  • As of 2010, Renn has contracts with many high-profile plus size clothing manufacturers in the U.S. and Paris.

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  • Lawyers can also assist with other employment-related matters, including reviewing employment contracts or a proposed severance package if the client's employment is terminated.

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  • Annuities are contracts issued by life insurance companies, and many provide a guaranteed death benefit for a spouse or beneficiary.

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  • Some scams that individuals fall prey to include fake tickets and coupons and individuals not reading the small print in their vacation package contracts.

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  • Always read the fine print of user terms and conditions, registration contracts, and offer requirements to gain a clear picture of how free the tickets are.

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  • You'll go through practices, play games, hire and fire agents, get haircuts and tattoos, conduct interviews with the media, negotiate contracts, and even take on endorsements and earn starring roles in movies.

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  • Take over all the business and rackets in New York, including completing all the contracts on the other families' top guys.

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  • In most instances, a publisher contracts with a development firm to create a specific game.

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  • Most cell phone companies do have "unlimited long distance" contracts that customers can sign, but most do not include using a cell phone in Europe.

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  • Don't be afraid to call a representative and ask questions about contracts and hidden fees.

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  • No need to buy any additional hardware, no need to sign any additional contracts.

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  • They offer contracts (maximum of two years), month-to-month, and prepaid options.

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  • Verizon customers who are still in contracts will get a shot at the iPhone's capabilities.

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  • Shorter contracts are also available, though the effective price of the phone will go up as a result.

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  • However, it is possible to buy phones outside of contracts that are completely "unlocked."

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  • Canceling your contract if you lose your phone won't be inexpensive either; there's an early termination fee for contracts of either length.

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  • Mobilicity is a Canadian cell phone company that doesn't require contracts whatsoever.

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  • Then when food enters the stomach, the gall bladder contracts and empties its contents.

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  • Generally parents should not be concerned if their child contracts fifth disease.

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  • Rubella causes severe birth defects (including heart defects, cataracts, deafness, and mental retardation) if a pregnant woman contracts it during the first three months of pregnancy.

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  • The prognosis for an otherwise healthy, well-nourished child who contracts measles is usually quite good.

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  • Each of these infections is considered a risk to the fetus only if the mother contracts it for the first time during that pregnancy.

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  • When the pupil is exposed to bright light it contracts (closes), and when it is exposed to low light conditions it dilates (opens) so that the appropriate amount of light enters the eye.

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  • Immediate medical help should always be sought when anyone in these high-risk groups contracts the disease.

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  • In other cases, a mother's illness may cause congenital malformations; an example is rubella, which can cause heart defects, deafness, developmental delays, and other problems in a fetus if the mother contracts it during pregnancy.

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  • A doctor should be consulted if complications develop from a lice infestation or if a child contracts a bacterial infection from scratching the bites.

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  • However, spasms of coughing may continue to occur over a period of months, especially when a person contracts a cold, or other respiratory infection.

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  • Make contracts at the beginning of the season that each dancer must sign to commit to the competition schedule.

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  • Use caution in interviewing, and make sure these companies are legitimate before entering any contracts.

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  • Those who receive contracts to assist with the recovery will likely need to hire workers to provide various types of services.

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  • Local home inspectors know the state and local building codes and can be an excellent resource for the client that contracts their services.

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  • Some builders do offer inspection clauses in their contracts which covers the cost of an inspection, and most of these clauses allow the buyer to select the inspector.

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  • For example, land contracts become the property of the buyer (he or she receives the deed) once an owner financed contract is paid in full.

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  • Land contracts offer an equitable title interest for the buyer as they are deemed to have a legal interest in the property.

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  • If you choose this route, make sure you read and understand all the contracts, loans, promissory notes, or leases you are signing.

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  • Certain contracts do not pass the legal title to the buyer.

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  • As there are many types of owner-financed contracts with variable terms, conditions, and even ambiguities, it behooves a buyer to understand all aspects of a transaction of this type before signing on the dotted line.

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  • A sponsor of Olympic diving and swimming, along with many collegiate contracts and with personal endorsements from athletes like Michael Phelps, Speedo continues in popularity.

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  • Hire an attorney to monitor the setting up of the actual endowment fund legal contracts.

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  • If a person addicted to sex contracts an STD, he/she may pass it to multiple partners before symptoms even appear.

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  • These lists provide information on clients that have unfair job contracts, don't pay their writers on time, or don't even pay them at all.

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  • Agents must negotiate with publishers over issues relating to rights, contracts, and royalties in order to make sure their clients' interests are protected.

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  • The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award offers the chance to win one of two $15,000 publishing contracts with Penguin USA and distribution of your novel on Amazon.com.

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  • In fact, since the late 20th century, women also have been toting these mammoth career testimonials around the office, because as corporations grow and expand, so do the contracts, and thus the paperwork.

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  • An attorney's success depends on crisp contracts and perfectly preserved paperwork, which is why a number of sleek briefcases have been designed specifically for litigators.

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  • Find out when it expires and what the base service price is before you sign any contracts.

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  • Extended warranties and service contracts are becoming more popular in the electronics industry.

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  • If you are interested in learning more about extended warranties and service contracts, the following links may be useful.

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  • Eventually all nine veterans were rehired with new contracts and the fans were told it was a hoax.

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  • I took a peek when signing my contracts and it said PW.

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  • Jess Walton (Jill Abbott) and Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman) were the first two headliners to make waves on soap opera news sites as their contracts went down to the wire.

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  • Contracts did not take into account the product licensing necessary for releasing episodes in those formats.

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  • Like her character, Bush has turned her talent and good looks into a solid career In addition to her work on One Tree Hill she has landed endorsement and modeling contracts.

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  • In 2009, Walton walked off the set of The Young and the Restless following a dispute over contracts.

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  • An Atmos clock consists of a hermetically sealed capsule that contains ethyl chloride, which is a combination of gas and liquid that expands and contracts according to the temperature, forcing air through the mechanisms inside.

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  • It usually contains documents the owner feels are necessary to provide the audience with the information they need to make a decision, such as legal documents, contracts, income statements, resumes, and licenses.

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  • Prepaid cell phone plans are ideal for small business owners looking to save on occasional cell phone use, avoid contracts and overage fees, by purchasing minutes or units on a pay as you go basis.

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  • Since there are no contracts binding you to one carrier, or any hefty plan cancellation penalties, when you reach the end of your allotted minutes, you're free to change carriers.

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  • Because PPOs have contracts with the insurance companies, the member is allowed to see any physician he or she likes, but if the physician is not part of the PPO network, the member will probably pay more out of pocket costs.

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  • Choose a trusted provider of office products or professional forms and contracts.

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  • Understanding the relationships between these companies is vital to establishing contracts with businesses looking for staff.

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  • Once your employees know, you'll have to inform customers with whom you have contracts that will go unfulfilled.

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  • With vehicles being built at lower costs in Mexico, Brazil, and India, this may require union members to enter into contracts with lower wages and benefits.

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  • Cheerleaders are expected to represent their organization and have explicit contracts with regards to conduct, media relations and responsibilities.

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  • Instead of stretching and holding the stretch, a dynamic stretch contracts and stretches muscles over and over.

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  • Once the impulse has made its way to the correct muscle, it contracts until the brain ceases to send the impulse.

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  • In contrast, a muscle that begins to lengthen as it contracts is called an eccentric contraction.

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  • Since a muscle is lengthening as it contracts during eccentric contraction, this type of training gives the muscles that long lean look.

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  • Headquartered in Chevy Chase, M.D., Geico Insurance contracts with millions of policyholders and insures over 16 million vehicles.

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  • Blue Cross Blue Shield also has contracts with more hospitals and physicians than any other insurer.

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  • In addition to paying for visits to doctors, dentists, and specialists, the plan also contracts with clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, and hospitals.

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  • Most warranty contracts last one year, but are guaranteed renewable.

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  • In some cases, service contracts are worth the extra money, and in some case they're not.

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  • Service contracts are very similar to warranties, because they are a sort of insurance that covers or helps to cover the cost of replacement and/or repairs on a purchased product.

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  • In most cases, these contracts cover an item for a very specific amount of time.

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  • However, they are different from warranties because such contracts do not come with the product.

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  • Contracts may also be sold with other types of items, buy you get the general idea.

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  • For example, service contracts don't normally cover failures caused by misuse of the product.

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  • Other times, service contracts are a very good idea-especially if you plan to keep the product for a long period of time and do not want to have to pay to repair or replace it.

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  • Like insurance, service contracts often have deductibles that must be met or co-pays.

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  • Some stores offer service contracts at no charge, while others charge a fee for the extra warranties.

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  • This website is especially designed for people looking for non-cancelable contracts.

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  • Insurance contracts basically involve three parties.

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  • Humana introduced an innovative program which puts a limit on 2007 health insurance premium increases (and years following) if policyholders sign contracts and utilize Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

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  • Equipment breakdown coverage picks up where standard homeowner policies leave off and surpass the coverage provided by individual warranties and service contracts which usually only cover one piece of equipment.

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  • Product warranties and service contracts do offer limited coverage and are better than nothing.

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  • Medicare contracts with insurance providers to provide this drug coverage.

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  • MetLife contracts with only those dentists they believe will provide the best care for their members.

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  • Take your time and read over any contracts, including the fine print, when comparing policies so you can get the best coverage for the best price so your family will be protected.

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  • Options are contracts guaranteeing a purchase or sale of an investment at a fixed price.

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  • Certain agencies in California may offer the option of a collision damage waiver in their rental car contracts.

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  • Its main purpose was to assist insurance companies with covering the long term expenses of worker's compensation and disability claims by purchasing reinsurance contracts with third parties.

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  • In fact, most landlords include wording within the rental contracts that states the landlord is not liable to pay for any repair or replacement of any the renters' personal belongings in the event of an otherwise insured event.

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  • Magazines became a big source of revenue for Laetitia when she became involved in numerous print publication contracts.

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  • Aside from the numerous magazine contracts, her popularity lead her to be named one of the "Most Influential People of the Year" in Time Magazine.

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  • In addition to her modeling contracts, Marisa had other ways to line her pocket with green.

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  • Indecent proposals, iniquitous contracts, they've all been offered to and passed on by Lauren Curtis.

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  • Once just a regular girl on the social networking train, she is now a Stuff cover girl with a record deal and forthcoming movie contracts.

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  • Who needs million dollar contracts and a bunch of old guys telling you what to do when anyone with a dream, drive, and an internet connection can reach the masses for a song?

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  • Ensuring that location reservations, supply rentals, and other arrangements are made properly and on time, including negotiating rates and contracts and judging whether locations meet size and other requirements for the event.

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  • Before signing any consultation contracts, make sure you know the details.

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  • Not all winners wind up with enviable careers after the initial contracts expire, and some of the most successful contestants aren't the official winners of the show.

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  • The winners and the runners-up become household names, receive recording contracts and delight music fans from coast-to-coast.

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  • Season six saw Jordin Sparks take home the top prize and recording contracts.

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  • You must also prove to the satisfaction of the producers that you do not have professional contracts for music recording or acting, talent representation, or promotional use of your likeness.

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  • The producers will want you free to enter into contracts with American Idol and other existing contracts may prohibit the freedom of that relationship.

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  • No matter what you do, remember to read all the fine print before signing any contracts.

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  • As with all legal contracts, there are a few things you agree to by being a participant on the show.

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  • I homeschooled myself through high school and did contracts as I bounced around.

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  • This value has less to do with who to sell to, and more to do with connections for business contracts and strategic advice.

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  • Small and mid-sized businesses often use this kind of hosting with resellers under long term contracts.

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  • If this is your goal then you should get yourself versed in contracts, legal issues, and pricing strategy (check out web design sites for an idea).

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  • At a later date he was charged by Burke with having taken up profitable contracts for supplying bullocks for the use of the Company's troops.

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  • Since concordats are contracts they give rise to that special mutual obligation which results from every agreement freely entered into; for a contract is binding on both parties to it.

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  • But with these reservations it must unhesitatingly be said that concordats are bilateral or synallagmatic contracts, from which results an equal mutual obligation for the two parties, who enter into a juridical engagement towards each other.

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  • Troy benefited financially by the War of 1812, during which contracts for army beef were filled here.

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  • The so-called " contracts," including a great variety of deeds, conveyances, bonds, receipts, accounts and, most important of all, the actual legal decisions given by the judges in the law courts, exist in thousands.

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  • In commercial matters, payment in kind was still common, though the contracts usually stipulate for cash, naming the standard expected, that of Babylon, Larsa, Assyria, Carchemish, &c. The Code enacted, however, that a debtor must be allowed to pay in produce according to statutory scale.

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  • The debtor could also pledge his property, and in contracts often pledged a field, house or crop. The Code enacted, however, that the debtor should always take the crop himself and pay the creditor from it.

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  • A sort of symbolic retaliation was the punishment of the offending member, seen in the cutting off the hand that struck a father or stole a trust; in cutting off the breast of a wet-nurse who substituted a changeling for the child entrusted to her; in the loss of the tongue that denied father or mother (in the Elamite contracts the same penalty was inflicted for perjury); in the loss of the eye that pried into forbidden secrets.

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  • The contracts naturally do not concern such criminal cases as the above, as a rule, but marriage contracts do specify death by strangling, drowning, precipitation from a tower or pinnacle of the temple or by the iron sword for a wife's repudiation of her husband.

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  • The judges might be satisfied of its existence and terms by the evidence of the witnesses to it, and then issue an order that whenever found it should be given up. Contracts annulled were ordered to be broken.

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  • The possibility of reforming these contracts in some parts of the kingdom has been studied, in the hope of bringing them into closer harmony with the needs of rational cultivation and the exigencies of social justice.

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  • In some of the Lombard mezzadria contracts taxes are paid by the cultivator.

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  • On some small holdings, however, it exists with contracts lasting from two to six years.

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  • Special contracts, known as colonie immovibili and colonie tern poranee are applied to the latifondi or huge estates, the owners of which receive half the produce, except that of the vines, olive-trees and woods, which he leases separately.

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  • Improvement contracts also exist.

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  • Improvement contracts are granted for uncultivated bush districts, where one fourth of the produce goes to the landlord, and for plantations of fig-trees, olive-trees and vines, half of the produce of which belongs to the landlord, who at the end of ten years reimburses the tenant for a part of the improvements effected.

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  • The terms of agrarian contracts and leases (except in districts where mezzadria prevails in its essential form), are in many regions disadvantageous to the laborers, who suffer from the obligation to provide guarantees for payment of rent, for repayment of seed corn and for the division of products.

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  • The long-promised abolition of the grist tax was not explicitly mentioned, opposition to the railway redemption contracts was transformed into approval, and the vaunted reduction of taxation replaced by lip-service to the Conservative deity of financial equilibrium.

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  • The railway redemption contracts were in fact immediately voted by parliament, with a clause pledging the government to legislate in favor of farming out the railways to private companies.

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  • In March 1902 agrarian strikes organized by the leg/fe broke out in the district of Copparo and Polesine (lower valley of the Po), owing to a dispute about the labor contracts, and in Apulia on account of unemployment.

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  • In the spring of 1908 there were agrarian strikes at Parma; the labor contracts had pressed hardly on the peasantry, who had cause for complaint; but while some improvement had been effected in the new contracts, certain unscrupulous demagogues, of whom Alceste De Ambris, representing the syndacalist wing of the Socialist party, was the chief, organized a widespread agitation.

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  • The relations of their bishops, priests or other ministers and lay office-bearers inter se and to their lay folk depend upon contract; and these Y P P contracts will be enforced by the ordinary courts of law.

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  • The sun is thus slowly contracting; but as it contracts it gains heat by the operation of the law just referred to, and thus the further cooling and further contraction of the sun is protracted until the additional heat obtained is radiated away.

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  • Some spinners cover their yarn contracts merely by buying " futures," but the cover thus provided is frequently most inadequate owing to variations in the " points on or off" for the particular cotton that they want.

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  • The palace acted as a barracks for his assassins, who were trudging in after he ordered their contracts all cancelled.

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  • The farmers, with these contracts in hand, can plant aggressively knowing they have a ready buyer at a fixed price.

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  • If you made a product the military could use, government contracts came a-flowin'.

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