He said both would be big and efficient enough in many cities to negotiate profitable contracts for managed health care business, resisting pressures for lower prices.

Eventually, the Federation approached the brothers with an extremely profitable contract to help produce military vehicles for it.

He broke box-office records all over the US and in 1972 signed a hugely profitable contract with Columbia.

But investors are concerned over Disney's profitable contract with Pixar, the maker of animated films, which ends in 2006.

Mr. Grennan said that stock index traders sold profitable contracts, saw the market's strength "and then they bought more."

But as at many competitors, sales pressure can be heavy at Tops, particularly for highly profitable extended-warranty contracts.

In addition, they won a bidding war for an extremely profitable contract to sell computers to the US government.

In the 1990s, urbanization in several Gulf states, especially Dubai, led to a number of profitable contracts for Japanese construction companies.

Triangle, local people own at least ninety percent, we own ten or less, but they give us a profitable managerial contract.

An article on page 24 of the Arts and Leisure section today discusses the increasingly profitable contracts received by pop stars.