At present, the ICC are undergoing a multi-million lawsuit with previous sponsors because of non-delivery of a contract.

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Such journeys into low Earth orbit do not need the heavy-lifting oomph that more wide-ranging missions require, so the proposal is to contract out all of this local delivery work.

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The contract, part of the national Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, will be awarded in early December.

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It would put a buyer together with a seller, take "delivery" of the contract for one fleeting moment and book the entire "sale" as revenue to Enron.

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Keep the contract terms simple--amount, time and place of delivery--so that deals will get done.

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The price they paid was either tied to the spot price at the time of delivery or agreed to at the time they formed the contract.

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Mrs Thatcher wrote that one Peruvian ship had been sent away from France empty, but another ship was on its way to France to take delivery of weapons - Peru was protesting to France about a breach of contract.

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