The manner in which this income is collected is also stated in the lease contract.

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McClurg couldn't afford to pay a lawyer to draft contracts, so he tweaked a Learjet lease contract he had found on the Web.

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By far the most ambitious of all the land deals in the past year was Daewoo Logistics' contract with the government of Madagascar to lease 1.3m hectares, almost half the country's arable land, to produce corn for Daewoo's home country, South Korea.

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In 1989 Mittal negotiated to lease and run the mill under a 10-year contract, with an option to buy in 5 years.

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Within three months they had signed a contract saying the developer would build and then lease Wal-Mart a building for a wholesale store on a four-acre plot.

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Instead it gets to spread its payments over the life of the contract, in much the same way as one might lease rather than buy a car.

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With his contract uncertainty behind him, Beckham seemed to have a new lease of life and he was even given a free role behind forwards Inzaghi and Pato by Ancelotti.

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Excluding non-cash expenses, COGS increased 4% year over year primarily due to an increase in customer premise equipment sales since the launch of our no contract retail model, which requires customers to purchase rather than lease devices, at the beginning of 2012.

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