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Essentially, this approach places the risk of non-delivery on the service provider, not on donors or governments as has traditionally been the case.
Wajiha Ahmed: Pakistan's Post-Floods Reconstruction: Doing It Right Wajiha Ahmed 2010
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One can only hope that together with the carrot, there also is a serious whipping clause in the contract in case of non-delivery.
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The publications sold more than 122,000 copies on newsstands on non-delivery days during the October-March period, accounting for a little more than one-quarter of the average circulation.
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The Detroit newspapers are still printing on non-delivery days.
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Buying the thinner newspapers on non-delivery days has been less appealing since October, when the Detroit dailies doubled their newsstand price to $1 for weekday editions.
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On the subject of non-delivery of Speccie, is there not an alternative to using Royal Mail?
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It's been seven years since the working-mother smash hit, I Don't Know How She Does It. There was talk of her being sued by Harvey Weinstein for non-delivery, and Pearson's touching confession of clinical depression in the pages of the Daily Mail.
I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson Jenny Colgan 2010
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Newsstand sales in the latest measurement period were down by an average of more than 51,000 copies, or 30 percent, on non-delivery days compared with the six months before the price increase.
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The crisis will result in public expenditure cuts which will only exacerbate the non-delivery of services to the poor.
Raj Nallari: Reflections on Development Economics After the Crisis Raj Nallari 2010
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In other instances, independent contractors buy the newspapers at retail outlets on non-delivery days and bring them to subscribers willing to pay an extra $4 to $12 per week to have a newspaper dropped on their porch or driveway.
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