Also, since the change only affects new contracts, no one who is currently employed would be affected, including the union members who were on strike today.

The change would affect contracts signed that winter.

It is unclear how any changes in the index would affect contracts more loosely based on the cost of living.

They do not affect contracts or grants already in effect.

As long as it doesn't affect their budgets, contracts, or completion dates, no one here is going to worry too much.

This is important as allegiance will eventually affect available contracts and even influence the ending of the game.

That provision alone could affect contracts worth $1 billion, said Jeffrey M. Reid, under secretary of the state's business, transportation and housing agency.

Money doesn't influence the substance of Presidential campaigns in the same way it affects bills in Congress or contracts in the Pentagon.

The new requirement will also affect other contracts for planting trees throughout the city in the future, Mr. Benepe said.

The decision affects contracts valued at £350,000.