contracting

IPA: kˈɑntræktɪŋ

Examples of "contracting" in Sentences

The rare FDIC move resulted in contracting out running the failed Greeley bank to Bank of the West for a 30 day period.
Imagine how bad the ethonol problem would be without Randy Leonard's gross incomeptence in contracting the city to pay $7.00/gallon.
Development contracting is essentially government-sponsored stabilization and reconstruction efforts outsourced to private contractors.
There are a lot of constraints on people in contracting etc. that requires proofreading and second opinions, a simple mistake that is seen too quickly could have drastic repercussions.
Just one example from the GAO report; A Las Vegas firm falsely claimed it was a veteran-owned small business to compete for $200 million in contracting work to maintain trailers for Katrina victims.
In an interview, another reformer, Margie Brown, president and chief executive of Cook Inlet Region, said that federal contracting is a great tool but that the ability to get unlimited contracts without competition has unintended consequences.
It raises the serious risk that State will be required to undertake a very large, hurried, expensive, and unprecedented exercise in contracting unless some change is negotiated in the Security Agreement or unless the Government of Iraq demonstrates serious capability and intent to provide the normal array of host-nation security and commercial services.