contract
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Most of Apple’s supply chain is in Asia, and the company has been working with contract manufacturers to build new iPhone assembly plants in India.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
But Barca's opening bid for a player out of contract next summer was only £38.5m but the situation remains fluid.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Netherlands-based TTF September contract trades just shy of 60 euros a megawatt-hour and is headed for a weekly gain of 6%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Dad is a construction manager, and when he got this really good contract in Arizona, it was supposed to be a temporary gig.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Citizens can petition leaders to avoid or drop contracts, a tactic that has been working across the country.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
The Wall Street Journal reported in June that about 50 cities and counties have canceled Flock contracts or deactivated cameras since early last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Defined-outcome funds use options contracts, a kind of financial derivative, to limit investors’ potential losses over a given period, with the protection typically coming at the cost of a cap on gains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
In politics news, it reports that the PM's proposals to restrict zero hours contracts could impose costs up to £3bn a year on businesses.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Marriage contracts can be broken. What advantage is there in wedding the king to the daughter of a dead traitor?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
“Channel Infrastructure remains a high-quality strategic infrastructure asset, underpinned by defensive contracted earnings and valuable Marsden Point growth optionality,” says Macquarie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
England boss Steve Borthwick has shaken up his centrally contracted squad with just over a year to go until the Rugby World Cup.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“As that base grows, each new build becomes a smaller part of the whole, while contracted revenue from existing deployments remains in place. This is how we are transforming scale into operating leverage.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Instead, the researchers investigate cosmic 'bounce' models, in which an earlier Universe contracted before reversing course and expanding.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dr. Devèze had not only seen and treated yellow fever while living in the West Indies, he had contracted it twice.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Some black holes may have originated during the earlier contracting phase and then passed through the bounce.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
The report from a pest control company said it could put people and animals with open wounds at risk of contracting disease.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
That phrase appears in a contracting document for Acentra Health that was first reported on by independent journalists through the newsletter Popular Information.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Anduril has steadily expanded into nearly all facets of defense contracting, from jets to submarines and counterdrone systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The red glows, contracting, then growing bigger than before.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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