Word: contractive
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Rawls is credited with reviving the social contract tradition in social and moral philosophy. He devoted his life to the study of the subject of justice, refining and working on his theory for 50 years...
...Bharti Tele-Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on the subcontinent. Customer base: 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $1 billion expansion that quadrupled the size of his network in less than a year. Mittal even completed an acquisition of a competitor?from initial offer to signed contract?in 48 hours. "Our biggest weapon," Mittal says, "has been speed...
...just happened to go bald soon after that," she deadpans. Iwasaki has set the record straight on the details of her life. But it's her ongoing feud with Golden that keeps ruffling kimonos in the literary world. An update: in 2001, Iwasaki sued Golden for breach of contract and a tarnished reputation. The ex-geisha, who now runs a furniture-restoration business, calls the notion that geishas are prostitutes "ridiculous," and was angered at the sex-for-money in Golden's novel. She also objected to the fact that Golden credited her as a source in his acknowledgments...
...PAKISTAN: Den of terror In Pakistan, al-Qaeda is thriving. Its tactic has been to contract out its terror work to local hirelings?and there are a multitude. Police are investigating links between Osama bin Laden's network and a spate of anti-Western attacks this past year: the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, bomb attacks in Karachi on the U.S. consulate and on a bus full of French submarine technicians and massacres of Christians. President Pervez Musharraf pledged full cooperation to the U.S. in its search for al-Qaeda. But those orders are not always trickling...
...decision came during a meeting intended to evaluate the superintendent’s performance during her five-year tenure and to determine whether to renew her contract...