This Chinese company had been doing business with this American company for over four years, and during these four years, the Chinese company thought there was mutual trust and therefore did not ask for the contract to be in writing.

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Judge Sunita Snyders agreed, saying Mashaba's contract stipulated he should have been notified in writing of any alleged breaches and given a chance to rectify them before he was suspended.

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In essence, these funds are writing a contract with their consultants.

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In 1979, he left NBC Universal where he spent eight years under contract creating and writing series such as the Rockford Files, to start his own independent production company.

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Since he understands the product better than anyone else in the company and he has expressed an interest in helping the company grow to the next level, you ask the CTO to take the lead on writing a proposal for the contract and making sure it gets delivered to the procurement officer in six weeks.

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