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According to Professor Farnsworth, '(T)he chief utility of the concept of good faith performance has always been as a rationale in a process . . . of implying contract terms . . ..' Farnsworth, Good Faith Performance and Commercial Reasonableness under the Uniform Commercial Code, 30 U.Chi.L.Rev. 666, 672 (1963). He defines the Code's good faith obligation as 'an implied term of the contract requiring cooperation on the part of one party to the contract so that another party will not be deprived of his reasonable expectations'. Id. at 666. When a contract contains a provision expressly sanctioning termination without cause there is no ...