Also on the table were limits to the fat severance payments available to bureaucrats, and measures to speed the privatisation of telecoms, electricity, fisheries and the post office, and to contract-out the management of ports.
The then-prime minister's drive to contract out public-sector tasks to the private sector laid the foundations for firms taking over such services as school and hospital meals, buildings maintenance and even staff training.
"We've offered him a contract with a get-out clause if someone comes in for him, " Jones said.
In June Stever quit Cintas--one of its drivers was her friend and let her out of her contract early--and now rents from rival Aramark.
Martinez will also take goalkeeping coach Inaki Bergara and masseur Oscar Brau with him to join his new-look backroom team at Wigan but the two were out-of-contract at Swansea.
Jan is out of contract - he is free to seek other employment and I'm pretty sure that's what he will be doing.
Lawson spent 10 months as Pakistan coach in 2008 with mixed success, before he was sacked with a year remaining on his contract after a public fall-out with the board.
The F-35 contract Lockheed beat out Boeing ( BA) for almost a decade ago is so huge because the government opted to make just one basic aircraft design serve all branches.
The 31-year-old, who is out of contract with the French club in the summer, has agreed a two-year contract at Ibrox.
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The final could mark the end of Smith's tenure as England coach, with the 42-year-old out of contract at the end of the year.
What this says is that the State of Wisconsin can sell or contract out management of state-owned heating, cooling and power plants without the requirement that bids for such a sale or leasing be solicited so as to maximize what the government can pocket through such an arrangement.
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The photo in question depicted shrieking white women (perhaps part of fan clubs "Girls Who Give In When Billy Gives Out" or "The Vibrato's Vibrators") clawing at the musician, and it found B barred from clubs and compromised his once-promising Hollywood film contract--downgrading it to a few peripheral roles that were edited out for Southern versions.
The deal gives Hawk-Eye the opportunity to expand into football, despite missing out on the contract to supply the goal-line technology for this summer's Fifa Confederations Cup.
He signed a five-year contract with City in August 2009 after a long-drawn-out transfer saga in a deal that made him the second most expensive English defender, after Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.
Gallas, 32, and fellow centre-backs Sol Campbell and Mikael Silvestre are all out of contract in June and Gunners chairman Peter Hill-Wood described Gallas's demands for a new contract as "quite extravagant".
Crowe will replace out-of-contract United defender Frazer Richardson, who leaves the club after 168 appearances.
But Swans manager Roberto Martinez says he is keen to retain all of his out-of-contract players.
New Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay has made out-of-contract Scotland winger Craig Conway his first signing.
He has been strongly linked with a move for out-of-contract Histon striker Danny Wright.
Abbott also believes the immediate future of out-of-contract striker Danny Graham should become clearer this week.
Linfield's out-of-contract keeper Alan Mannus got a late run and made a great save to deny Pellissier.
The West Brom boss also revealed he wants to start talks with out-of-contract pair Zoltan Gera and Kevin Phillips.
Abbott has also revealed that he has given his out-of-contract players one month to accept a new deal with the club.
Abbott also confirmed that talks with his other out-of-contract players are continuing.
The 29-year-old is out of contract in the summer and will meet club bosses in the next couple of weeks to discuss a new deal.
Earnshaw says out-of-contract Ledley has a "huge" career decision to take.
Lennon appears to have made strengthening his midfield one of his priorities and Celtic remain favourites to sign the out-of-contract Wales international Joe Ledley from Cardiff City.
The 28-year-old was out of contract at the end of the current season but this extension will keep him at Headingley until the end of the 2011 season.
Dunfermline's out-of-contract goalkeeper Dorus De Vries is one target.
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