Sentences with phrase «many agencies contract»

Pritchard added that the business had not scrutinized agency contracts closely enough, allowing one to use P&G's money as a «float».

But a lot of these agencies charge small businesses that much — and I've seen it because a few of these agencies contract the work out to us on a white - label basis.

Mack Defense of Upper Macungie Township has been awarded a major defense logistics agency contract that should mean plenty of work for the company's...

A few months ago, it seemed more than likely that J.D. Martinez would either re-sign with the Diamondbacks or head to the Red Sox for a juicy free agency contract.

My adoption agency contract was for a healthy infant under one year of age.

Visit the OSC website, and take a good look at the volume / dollar values of (OSC --RRB- approved state agency contracts.

For example, the Executive proposes to exempt agency contracts from the State Comptroller's review and approval.

If this was really about saving the state money, the governor would support the cost - benefit analysis bill to require a cost - benefit analysis before state agencies contract out work to higher priced consultants.

Such a government agency contract, which has not been offered by NYPA to CPV, would guarantee the bonding required to finance the project.

Charlotte Keith's story detailed the dynamics of the deal in which a state development agency contracted with LPCiminelli to build office space to house Albany Molecular Research Inc. at the Conventus building.

The Data Conversation Laboratory works on defense and federal agency contracts, but is rarely in the position to win bids because of competition, the firm's chief operating officer, Amy Williams, said.

1968: GE Quadruped Transporter The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contracted General Electric in 1968 to build the Quadruped Transporter, known as the Walking Truck or the Giant Elephant.

In 2008, the agency contracted with Discovery Logic / Thomson Reuters and research economist Donna Ginther of the University of Kansas, Lawrence, to do a modeling study.

The study, «Behavioral assessment of sensitivity to intracortical microstimulation of primate somatosensory cortex,» was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Contract N66001 -10-C-4056.

It seems that the ladies need to sign an agency contract, which could explain their reluctance to exchange personal contact details.

NASA, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Education, and nearly every other state, federal, and local government agency contract with for - profit firms to support, provide, and evaluate service delivery.

Although Ofsted employs its own in - house team of inspectors, the agency contracts out the majority of inspections to a handful of private - sector and nonprofit organizations via a competitive bidding process.

School agencies contract independent healthcare providers to respond to these needs.

Click here to see the most common literary agency contract clauses with definitions and things you'll want to consider.

If your literary agent does that, you might want to sign a new literary agency contract for a second year.

Specifically, I'm thinking of the derivative and related works clauses in an agency contract and the right to receive commission for a «Work».

With traditional publishing, you can kiss your rights goodbye, since the standard agency contract demands the life of the copyright (i.e., the rest of your natural life + 70 years).

If you are represented by an agent for the book, your agency contract might obligate you to self - publish through the agency so it can earn (or continue to earn) 15 percent of your book sales (or 20 % for international sales, where half of the commission goes to the foreign co-agent).

We told the publishers, «We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 %, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway...» They went to Amazon and said, «You're going to sign an agency contract or we're not going to give you the books.»

Here, the Defendants acted consistently with a collusive arrangement, and inconsistently with a pro-competitive arrangement, as they sought to pressure another publisher (whose market share was growing at the Publisher Defendants» expense after the Apple Agency Contracts became effective) to join them.

As one CEO of a Publisher Defendant's parent company explained in a December 6, 2009 email message, «[o] ur goal is to force Amazon to return to acceptable sales prices through the establishment of agency contracts in the USA * * *.

My hypothesis is that when the new agency contracts were negotiated Amazon got deep discount pricing on some or all of the Big 5 physical books.

One particular email seized stood out and said «Our goal is to force Amazon to return to acceptable sales prices through the establishment of agency contracts in the USA.»

I want to know that his agency doesn't have a similar clause in their contracts as well because, let's face it, agency contracts are looking more and more like publishing contracts.

In another post by Nelson Agency contracts and royalties manager Angie Hodapp — Authors, Do You Know Where Your Money Is?

For example, photographers sign stock agency contracts with outrageously bad terms they should never accept, and authors sign publishing contracts with outrageously bad terms they should never accept, in both cases demonstrating a desperate willingness to undervalue their work to nearly nothing just to get into print.

In an opinion on e-book prices in December 2009, the French Competition Authority said that the agency model was «a possible solution» and that a proper «agency contract» would comply with French competition law.

But having heard the same demand for agency terms coming from all the publishers in such close proximity... we really had no choice but to negotiate the best agency contracts we could with these five publishers.»

Amazon Kindle Content VP Russell Grandinetti testified at trial that «[i] f it had been only Macmillan demanding agency, we would not have negotiated an agency contract with them.

That difference is especially important because the Big Five are the same five publishers which negotiated agency contracts last fall and spring, giving themselves more control over their ebook prices.

In particular, Heiss referenced one email exchange in which McIntosh referred to Porco's belief that the Big 6 would never sign agency contracts unless they were offered 90 - 10 terms (in which the retailer would take only a 10 percent share; ultimately, the agency contracts that the publishers signed with Apple and Amazon offered a 70 - 30 split).

In particular, Snyder slammed Turvey repeatedly for a sentence in the testimony in which Turvey said he was «directly advised» by publishers that their agency contracts with Apple would not allow them to enter wholesale contracts with other retailers, like Google — when, in fact, other Google emails showed that this wasn't true.

One example is the agency contract, something that I have had personal experience with.

In the US, prior to the new agency contracts, Amazon discounting on Big Five books averaged very close to the full 30 %.

Under the agency contracts, publishers set the end price and retailers took a percentage.

It might be pushing things to expect that dispute to begin with the next round of agency contract negotiations in 2011, but expect that issue to make its way to the table in 2012 or 2013.

But Apple has maintained all along that its pursuit of agency contracts simply made good business sense - and if any price - fixing occurred, it was the publishers wot done it, definitely not the fruity firm.

Penguin, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Hachette have all bowed to the US government's will, dropping their agency contracts with Apple and agreeing to future contractual restrictions, as well as stumping up millions for their customers.

So how flexible is the agent about negotiating the agency contract terms as well as future traditional publishing terms?

All I can say is that three of the publishers named in the suit have agreed to a settlement that will include cancelling the agency contract with Apple.

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His explanation for the rise in US trade print sales in 2015 and 2016 is that in 2015 the large trade publishers» agency contracts eliminated retailer discounting of ebooks prompting Amazon, in mid-2015, to increase its discounts on their print books, instead.

The collection agency contract is awarded through the competitive bidding process.

I'm buying a home and chosen a real estate agent and am now reviewing the buyer agency contract.

They, or a collection agency contracted to collect on your loan, will try to contact you repeatedly before garnishment occurs.