Word: contractive
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...could be argued that the targets should have been higher. Still, he adds, the system is in its formative phases and as it grows, so will the price. As in other markets, the brokers earn their money through transaction fees paid by buyers, sellers or both, depending on contract terms...
...when Ngin asked for her money back after Vaghar terminated the contract, Vaghar sent her a check for $1,500—$300 more than she was owed...
...publicly traded company called Scomi Precision Engineering. Back in Dubai, he set up a cutout company called SMB Computers, which was a front for Khan's proliferation business. Ultimately, components manufactured at Scomi were sold via SMB to Libya as "used machinery"--part of the $100 million contract with Gaddafi's government...
...career was winding down. Her last contract was with the Poverty Row studio Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) for top-billed roles in two 1942 propaganda films set in the Asian war. In Joseph H. Lewis' Bombs Over Burma she's a schoolteacher joining forces with American GIs to defeat the Japs. "I can stand up and take it now," a soldier brags. "And what's more I can give it back." Wong smiles and replies, "Like China." This is one of the few exchanges in a strange movie, whose dialogue is so sotto voce, it's almost not-o voce...
Meanwhile, Leon Falic is trying to reassure his couturier. "I understand if he is nervous," Falic says of Lacroix, who still has to negotiate a contract with his new owners. "I think he will be very happy with us. We are very direct people. We're accessible. It's a family company, and we are all very family oriented." And unlike most fashion "families," still fully functional. --Reported by Sarah Raper Larenaudie/Paris