41. Producer responsibility activities for packaging are now financed based on private contracts , that have been declared legally binding. 42. He has since been blamed by the Nation for its loss of millions of dollars in private contracts . 43. In other words, a doctor who signs even one private contract is excluded from Medicare for two years. 44. Next, the private contracts will be terminated, with the federal government doing the work with its own employees. 45. The usage revenue-sharing deals that America Online strikes with its suppliers are private contracts , and the terms vary. 46. Until now, the doctors have always been at risk of criminal prosecution if they entered into such private contracts . 47. The American Medical Association and other physician groups said that few doctors would enter private contracts under those conditions. 48. In 1923 the U . S . Supreme Court declared a minimum wage an illegal interference in private contracts . 49. But Rep . Pete Stark, D-Calif ., said that private contracts exposed patients to " extortion " by doctors. 50. Once the process of marriage was secularized into a private contract , the role of churches substantially diminished for Protestants.
