Word: contractive
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...help tearing up when you see a little girl ask for an operation so she can do gymnastics again. While these shows do a social good, not just by helping but also by telling viewers they have the power to help others, they portray a particular kind of social contract as well. There is a great deal of talk of community in the small-town neighborhood sense and almost none in the national sense. They emphasize recipients' faith, their positivity, their unwillingness to blame others. Hardships are a result of fate, not cutbacks or social priorities. No one wonders...
China has grown into the world's made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world's output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimate?China's factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter's ideas and designs?much of it is illicit. The nation has deployed its prodigious replication skills to flood world markets with pirated goods and fakes, from designer clothing to consumer electronics. China's trading partners tell themselves that this blatant disregard for the intellectual property of others...
World isn't just a military flyer. It also transports two National Football League teams during the NFL season; operates an all business-class charter for oil companies from Houston to Luanda, Angola; has signed a commercial contract to start flying from Washington to Kabul, Afghanistan, as soon as U.S. authorities determine that the airport is secure; and was recently hired by Air Canada and Thai Air to provide cargo services...
Corker, whose job as special assistant to the dean for social programming will end on June 10, is in the process of finalizing a one-year contract with Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd...
...appointed as a Patriarchate accountant in 2002. According to a Greek government report obtained by Time, Eirinaios gave Papadimas several powers of attorney to administer the lease of a property in Jerusalem. Eirinaios told Greek investigators he believes Papadimas altered the documents "to afford himself greater powers and to contract long-term leases," the report says. Eirinaios denies knowledge of Papadimas' dealings, and issued a statement in March renouncing the powers of attorney he gave his former adviser. On March 27, Papadimas - speaking from an undisclosed location - told Athens daily Eleftherotypia that he acted with Eirinaios' permission. Greek investigators...