Sentences with phrase «very public contract»

I am sure we all remember the very public contract dispute between Hachette and Amazon.

His form may have been affected by the very public contract dispute he's had, but I think his talent and potential are without question, just look at the elite clubs tracking him.

Amazon and Hachette Book Group have put hostilities aside, ending their long - running and very public contract dispute over e-book pricing by signing a new multiyear agreement.

Not exact matches

I say very little in public but my manager has a clause in his contract that pays him # 5m if he wins the Champions League.

However, Sherwood's own future at the club is still in doubt after a series of shaky results and public outbursts, but should the former midfielder still be at the helm next term, and depending on whether Spurs inserted a buy - back clause in Caulker's contract then a deal could very well be on the cards.

He is out of contract in the summer and, amid some very public courting, Sky Sports claimed in January that he has reached an agreement in principle to sign for Serie A giants Juventus.

The union representing Metro Bus drivers and mechanics says it wants the public and the Governor to know members are «very frustrated» about the lack of a contract after eight years of negotiations, and have «no confidence» in the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Executive Director to reach an agreement on their behalf.

«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts without the very transparency and accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

Seto believes the risk of contracting SARS in public places is «very low» and so does not wear a mask himself.

The Union is very pleased to hear that HBO is doing the right thing now, but it is disappointing that we had to take such public measures to ensure compliance with our contracts and protect our background actors.

It may be coincidence, but in the midst of this very public debacle, several national AFT leaders were quietly involved with the negotiations between Baltimore City Schools and the local union which resulted in the just announced path - breaking new pay - for - performance contract that will replace the so - called «steps» and «lanes» of the traditional teacher contract.

After a very public courting by several large school systems, Rudolph F. Crew signed a contract last week to head the Miami - Dade County schools, a deal that will make him one of the highest - paid superintendents in the country.

While it is very difficult to remove public school teachers, private school teachers generally have contracts that are renewable each year.

Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union are in the midst of very tough negotiations over a new contract.

Very large numbers of those are public because either the private sector would not touch needed services or because the contracts in place were themselves corrupt and had to be taken over by the public.

Obviously, neither Amazon nor Hachette is offering very specific details about the contract they agreed on, but the public disclosures about the deal make it sound similar to the one recently reached between Amazon and Simon & Schuster.

In this post Data Policy # 1: U.S. Global Change Research Program, I discussed a clear policy statement by the U.S. Global Change Research Program in 1991 requiring public archiving of data after a very limited period of exclusive use by the contract investigator.

Audette's bio on the law firm's web page does not mention any municipal public works contracts but notes that the lawyer «has been very active at the municipal level since the beginning of his (30 - year) career.

I'm lucky that PLTC did focus on those areas (and as a result I finally know how to draft a contract), but there was very little substantive information that will be useful to me as a public interest lawyer, and a great deal that won't.

[123] If the exclusion clause is held to be valid and applicable, the Court may undertake a third enquiry, namely whether the Court should nevertheless refuse to enforce the valid exclusion clause because of the existence of an overriding public policy, proof of which lies on the party seeking to avoid enforcement of the clause, that outweighs the very strong public interest in the enforcement of contracts.

There was very little discussion of the lack of employment status for those on zero hours contracts during the parliamentary debates or evidence given to the Public Bill Committee.

That proof must be of sufficient magnitude to «outweigh the very strong public interest in the enforcement of contracts».

I also attended all of the contract negotiation meetings for a very large public - private partnership (PPP) deal, meaning a lot of client contact and immersion in the commercial issues at stake.

Shulmans LLP's «very professional and client - facing» practice advises public and private sector clients on contentious and non-contentious matters, including JCT, FIDIC, and PFI contracts and TCC enforcement proceedings and arbitrations.

'' I am very proud that Coinsilium supports the talented Rootstock team to develop a platform enabling smart contracts secured by the Bitcoin Blockchain which I see as an essential element in the transition to a world of Blockchain - based solutions for enterprises and public organizations.»

To thrive under health reform and best serve their clients, publicly supported health centers will need to become very good at working with and securing contracts from the health plans that dominate the public and private insurance markets.