formal expression I'm searching a suitable expression for my experienced resume. How can I say something like this. "converted one-time deal to annual contract"? Is it okay to say "annual contract" for a contract which is signed every year between our company and clients? How about "one-time deal"? so, i simply need a formal expression for explaning this situation.. before I concluded the contract, there wasn't a proper contract, so our company didn't have confidence whether the clients would buy our goods next time as well. But through dealing with the marketing staff in the client company, we agreed each other, to make a contract which was telling that our company could exclusively supply the goods for 1 year. Thank you for your help :)

writing practice I have been mulling over what I can do for changing our society in better way. However, what results have came up with until now? They were just fagments of attempts to fathome out what can I do for real after all. I have just always wondered whether people's personal exertions can change the massive flow of the world, I rather reluctantly pretended to convert ideas into action. I thought it would end being in vain as I sometimes feel myself as a tenuous human being. Sometimes, individual's persuasion looks quite futile to me as well, and are you firmly having confidence that even after rising to a very high post, can you act to protect the weaker people rather than keeping your own interest? Funnily enough, I also feel resentment against someone who haven't ever thought about this matter and simply give up trying something, although there isn't actually any difference between me and them

some obscure sentences I have some difficulties to understand some sentences from an article what I'm reading now. Please check whether I understood them well. 1. What do these criticisms add up to? - Does it mean like.. what is the result of these criticisms? 2. Not much, if officialdom is to be believed. = If officialdom doesn't believed so, it will not like that?? 3. A spokesman for Dr Chan insists the charges attributed to Dr Kochi do not reflect her organisation's officail views. - I'm confused the "the charges attributed to Dr Kochi" part here. "charge" here means criticism, am I right?and It was Dr Kochi who criticised something. right? 4. Therein lies an irony. = There is an irony here??? Thank you for your help, always :)

please fix it I have a difficulty to find some expression explaining my thought. I want to say....something like.. Until now, I have felt I am still remaining on the fringe of where things are happening around the world and recently have made up my mind to pass from thought to action. but it seems wrong. Can you fix it? on the fringe apart from where things are happening around world..?

Making a loooong sentence Recently, I read a Susan Sontag’s book, “Regarding the Pain of Others” which argues that a shock - tremendous but obviously transient- over terrifying images of the countries which are underdeveloped or in a state of civil war, being broadcasted through media every day and the resulting pity about the pain of peoples in there, is just the reflection of your thought and some kind of relief that it has nothing to do with you, taking place somewhere far away from you. If there is something wrong here, please fix it for me! Cheers :)

several questions 1. Clinton took up the cookstove cause, one of what she describes as "smart power" issues. -What does it mean "take up the cause" here? 2. It spoke to her focus and discipline, but also the urgency of time running out. -When "speak to" is not used to somebody or someone like this sentence, what is suppoesed to mean? 3. Such has been her success as secretary that when Obama's popularity ebbed last year, a spate of "what if" stories pondered whether she would have made a better president. - I'm simply confused about the this sentence's structure here. Thank you in advance.

Smashing Pumpkins Now I'm listening to the Smashing Pumpkins' new album, Oceania. The band was one of the most beloved one of my younger days specially to me! But now, they are just not like that as they changed many of their members, and....sadly..... they are simply getting old..as well as people's taste has been changed, leaning towards somekind of electronics which I enjoy a lot these days as well. However, it is always good to listen Billy Corgan's voice to me. I like that kind of male vocal, something like a cat, something fussy. anyway hopefully can go to the summer rock festival in Korea this year, where Smashing Pumpkins will emerge( without certain members, though). Lack of money is the only problem :(