A secret supplemental contract given to Massimino was his ultimate undoing.

His friends say he was under secret contract to the Government, which if true could mean he reported to other officials as well.

This secret contract resulted in a competitive advantage over Duke's competitors; he was able to lower his prices further than others could.

Or did Mitre have some secret contract to explore security on the military networks?

This would involve opening up Microsoft's secret contracts with personal computer makers.

"This was not a secret contract," he said.

He added, "The days of secret contracts and golden parachutes are over."

The documents showed painstaking negotiations over the payoffs, followed by secret contracts.

In the last week of June 2009, however, a secret contract was exposed.

In either case the mountaineers should not know from you in any way of the secret contracts between Vissarion and myself.