(noun) - an asymmetrical business arrangement, usually in employment, where the risks of loss are concentrated on the employee to ensure that the employee has guaranteed losses on any business reversals and contingent returns on any positive developments.
You have mountains of downside equity in that contract. The partners can deduct from your paycheck to make you eat the cost of delays that the partners exclusively control. They can swallow your commission if their client doesn't pay. They can even recapture from your future salary any underpayment with the negative carry-forward that they've imposed. On the whole, you're just a sharecropper with a JD.
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The U.S. National Broadband Plan recognizes the importance of digital social equity through its recommendation of closing the digital divide and the goal that all Americans have access to broadband, be digitally literate, fully participate in a digital economy, and receive the benefits of broadband enabled information and services.
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The moment at which the Sun passes over the equator, occurring around March 21, marking the beginning of Spring.
The only times that the amount of daylight and night are equal is during either the Autumnal or Vernal Equinox.
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"Bro the last girl you dated was old enough to be your mom, so tonight we're gonna go out drink some beers, and get you a dos equis."
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