by contract

The money — which came from nearly $2 billion in funding it received via the 2021 American Rescue Plan, the pandemic-era stimulus package — must be spent or obligated by contract by Dec. 31.

Caroline Hairfield, executive director of Montgomery County Animal Services, said that it is bound by contract to return surrendered animals back to the rescue and that its hands are tied.

Railroads have long argued that the size of train crews should be determined by contract talks, not regulators or lawmakers, because they maintain there isn’t enough data to show that two-person crews are safer.

But 11 years earlier, Palmer had fled Nashville, hamstrung by contract disputes, with “my tail between my legs,” she recalled recently in a video interview from her North Carolina kitchen.

Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who wrote books about Russia's police state under Vladimir Putin, was murdered in 2006 by contract killers.