The deal would avoid a nurses’ strike and would allow both sides to claim victory.

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City Room: Tentative Deal May Avert Nurses’ Strike at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals

Americans have signed millions of leases allowing oil and gas companies to drill on their land, but some landowners are finding out the hard way what their contracts actually say.

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Drilling Down: Drilling Down: Fighting Over Oil and Gas Well Leases

Contractors who misrepresent their size or status to the government would face much stiffer penalties under a rule proposed by the Small Business Administration earlier this month. The proposal, an implementation of last year’s Small Business Jobs Act, would make contractors that misrepresent themselves in order to qualify for contracts intended for small businesses or those owned by women, veterans or other disadvantaged groups liable for the full amount of the contracts they win — even if they provide the desired services or equipment. Read full article > >

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SBA proposes tougher penalties for companies that misrepresent their size

New research says consumers are wasting money on mobile phone bills as they do not understand their contracts.

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VIDEO: Are you paying too much for your mobile?

BISHKEK, KYRGYSTAN – When U.S. troops moved into Afghanistan in 2001, Douglas Edelman already had a foothold in Central Asia. He’d opened a bar and hamburger joint here in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the crumbling, outer rim of the former Soviet empire.

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Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar