1.   Business contracts go through armies of lawyers before they see the light of day.

2.   The contract had originally gone to China, who along with Japan and the Soviet Union, was keen to enter the Western launch market.

3.   If the contract goes to delivery, it clearly has to be settled for cash since it is not possible to deliver a physical index.

4.   And the contract has gone to a company based in Milton Keynes.

5.   Because it falls upon the airlines to hire screening contractors and pay them, contracts typically go to the lowest bidder.

6.   A labor contract generally goes a step further than an award by establishing a relationship between a company and a union.

7.   But the contract with Montefiore goes even further.

8.   Christophe Delorme, manager of yen bonds futures and options at Societe Generale Securities, said the contract might go even higher.

9.   Commissioner David Stern has said all NBA players are technically free agents during the lockout, but that all contracts would go back into effect once the lockout ended.

10.   He said he understood that being in the first class of entry-level players under the initial rookie salary cap meant his second contract was going to be tough sledding.