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For example, in 1946, the United States government issued a
contract
for Boeing to develop the B-52.
The
contract
thus had to reflect the risks inherent in finding out how to design and produce the most advanced aircraft of its time.
The Republicans are right about one thing: a default would cause government spending to
contract
in real terms.
To this end, Thailand urgently needs a new social
contract
that allows elected representatives to do their jobs, without marginalizing the establishment-based minority.
Angola, which currently exports 25% of its oil production to China, was granted a $2 billion loan in exchange for a
contract
to supply China 10,000 barrels of oil per day.
China was so eager to provide space technology to Africa’s most populous country that it beat out 21 other bidders for a
contract
worth $300 million.
If it is legislation rather than a clause in a union
contract
that regulates health and safety conditions in the workplace, a factory's air will smell just as sweet.
Shorting bonds by purchasing a CDS
contract
carries limited risk but almost unlimited profit potential, whereas selling a CDS
contract
offers limited profits but practically unlimited risks.
Global challenges grow, while the agendas of international summits contract, reinforcing the myth that they are mere talking shops.
Here, too, the right choice is clear: EU leaders should offer Europeans a new social contract, based on the understanding that people’s legitimate fears about globalization should be met with a collective, progressive European response.
At the Paris air show, Chinese officials made much of refusing to sign a
contract
with Airbus in retaliation for Europe’s plans for a carbon tax on air travel.
And it is a task that Egypt’s leaders cannot avoid, because the social
contract
of the Mubarak years, whereby Egyptians traded freedom for an expansive welfare state and generous subsidies, is no longer sustainable.
But the kingdom’s social contract, like Egypt’s, has become unsustainable, owing to falling oil prices and a population that has grown by more than 25% in the last decade alone.
Chile’s is more formal than that of its neighbors, but many people – especially women and the young – either have no job or work without a
contract.
Well, as the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman was at pains to demonstrate in a recent paper, an economy with flexible exchange rates and debt denominated in domestic currency will expand, not contract, in response to a foreign deleveraging shock.
The whole point of automation is that, unlike Ken, Nexus will never negotiate a labor
contract
with Luke.
The regime will also propose a “national contract,” supposedly to initiate a dialogue with the opposition.
And the
contract
between citizens and states on which national economies depend cannot be reproduced at the European level, because there is no European state with which to conclude the deal.
Underlying the private sector’s lassitude is a social
contract
that has endured for more than 50 years, whereby the state provides public-sector jobs and universal subsidies, in exchange for public quiescence and a lack of accountability.
By de-risking the economic lives of citizens, this social
contract
stifles entrepreneurship and innovation.
The MENA region urgently needs a new social
contract
focused on using technology to empower the hundreds of millions of youth who are expected to join the labor market in the coming decades.
The expansion for some products exceeds 30% in a year, while other industries continue to
contract.
After all, the judge is only enforcing the legal
contract
embodied in the original bonds, isn’t he?
In fact, it is possible that we are entering a period in which major adaptations in employment models, work weeks,
contract
labor, minimum wages, and the delivery of essential public services will be needed in order to maintain social cohesion and uphold the core values of equity and intergenerational mobility.
We cannot establish an effective social
contract
without an explicit understanding of our responsibilities towards each other – and of the rights that emerge alongside those responsibilities.
It called on Amazon to cancel its
contract
with WikiLeaks, while PayPal shut off WikiLeaks’ account – apparently without even being asked.
For example, ensuring that women have equal rights to inherit, sign a contract, register a business, or open a bank account would cost little, but could have far-reaching economic benefits.
Indeed, the deflationary spiral, particularly in Greece and Spain, is causing output to
contract
so rapidly that further spending cuts and tax increases are not reducing budget deficits and public debt relative to GDP.
Thirty-seven of them signed what they called a new “social contract.”
Still, one hundred years is a long time to
contract
about anything.
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