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We lost 357 (Red River) jobs, and that's 357 items of disaster for a family in this day and time of expensive cars and high home payments and things. We can't consider it a victory when we have that many losses.

Ralph Hall

Focus debt payments on the credit card, then the car, and then the student loans -- always pay your loans in interest rate order, not in order of balance size.

Doug Flynn

The current situation is that 80 per cent of the gap payments are known at the time of surgery.

Mukesh Haikerwal

It is the intention that, in due course, the company will carry out a capital reconstruction to enable the restoration of dividend payments at the appropriate time.

John Macarthur

I'm from Minneapolis, so I was well aware of the company and its dire financial straits. I stayed on top of this and I was the only hotel to get paid, and the payments were made and the checks cleared.

John Cousins

There are very vulnerable groups out there. We found many consumers severely underestimated what their payments would be when they adjusted. Some didn't even know how to calculate what their payments would amount to.

Allen Fishbein

In the early years of your mortgage, nearly 100 percent of your payments are applied to interest, ... Whenever you increase your principal, you change the mathematics entirely.

Robert Irwin

The estate profited unfairly after I made the payments. I'm not looking to profit.

Jackie Peterson

We are very glad the bill was paid. The whole issue's been financial all along. To get the bill current and a deposit for some future payments is reassuring to the city from a financial standpoint.

Lance Hedquist

CRP annual rental payments will be reduced 25 percent times the number of acres actually hayed or grazed times the per acre annual rental payment.

Larry Eubank

Conservation payments are discretionary spending that Congress can either appropriate or not or spend it for anything they want to. We have to be very careful to protect mandatory spending.

David Senter

The variable rate mortgages increased house payments by as much as 50 percent for some people.

Rick Sharga

Electronic payments are safer I think.

Ana Lampton

We are confident the hospital would be able to comfortably make the bond payments. Not only do we have the ability to make adjustments in our current budget to accommodate the payments, but we also reasonably anticipate that the new facility will help us capture additional revenue from this growing market.

Jim Little

The difference is a community takes it to the next level and adds additional payments on top of what the regular PLOTS payment would provide.

Kevin Kading

If people mail their credit card payments from the mailbox at their house, the thief will steal the mail. Then the thief will have access to credit-card information, checking account information and their signature.

Fred Hubler

Declines outweigh government loan deficiency payments (LDP) and counter-cyclical payments (CCP).

Pat Westhoff

We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits, limiting payments. Individuals are looking at higher deductibles, higher co-payments and less benefits.

Ruth Case

A private insurance company or other payments is not going to make the difference for the well over 99 per cent of people who are still going to access services in the way that they have.

Albert Schumacher

It really gets complicated if this rate increase doesn't go through. If we don't get the rate increase, we can't make future payments. We'll have to go back to the table with the town to figure out how these payments are going to get made.

Paul Adams

This is the first report in the country that will actually identify real payments.

Marc P. Volavka

More and more people are going to download their music, and if it all stays free and there is no control over the payments, then it will be difficult for younger artists to make a livelihood.

Peter Gabriel

The payments industry is an area where we expect to see rapid growth in the near future, and this acquisition strengthens our capability in the payments arena.

Sriram Srinivasan

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Earl Wilson

The self-employed person can't just go to the end of the year and say here's how much I owe. You are required by law to make payments during the year.

Brandon Roberts

If you're stretched to the max to be able to make the interest-only payments, the question is: What are you going to do when the principal comes due?

Doug Duncan

With strong positive free cash flow, debt can be retired, new products developed and dividend payments increased.

Wayne Thorp

The first $114 million of any funds that come to the state, that will relieve the Agricultural Development Fund from any bond payments -- and the cash portion taken from the fund, we'll get that back.

Keith Rogers

There's no specific reason. It's just really overall. The payments to consultants, the drilling -- once we got into it, things ended up costing more than initially expected.

Jeff Holyfield

It is standard practice... payments will be made for each day of delay in delivery.

John Leahy

This is a poison pill. It (the ban on speech payments) needs to come off and we need to address this issue in separate legislation.

Pete Maysmith

Attorney General Cooper believes that the people of North Carolina are due the full amount under the Master Settlement Agreement, and he will fight in court if necessary to see that full payments are made.

William Mckinney

Compared to the 30-year fixed mortgage, the 40-year fixed mortgage offers monthly loan payments that would be less than a 30-year mortgage on the same house.

Theresa Parker

She could no longer afford to live in her home or make her house payments.

Patricia Neal

With the current account deficit already extending above the equivalent of six per cent of gross national product, the balance of payments is vulnerable to a bird-flu-type of shock.

Tim Ash

We continue to believe that inflation is currently the least worrisome among the key macroeconomic policy goals such as growth, inflation and balance of payments.

Oh Suktae

We take an average year's consumption and divide it by 12 so all payments are equal and people can budget their gas bill.

Scott Simons

She was very much ahead of the other owners, who were afraid to speak up. She really pushed to make sure they received those payments.

Leslie Heaphy

It's really likely in the future customers will reach the same comfort with the cell phone as their credit card. The cell phone is more than just call making device. It's a content device with music and video and the opportunity is it could it be the way to make payments.

Tom O'donnell

It's still a fast pace and that's partly to do with the difficulty in managing this very large balance of payments surplus because part of it is spilling over into the money supply.

Rob Subbaraman

It's a very serious negative item on your report, on par with a tax lien or a bankruptcy. You will definitely pay more for your credit, in higher interest rates and higher down payments.

Maxine Sweet

Are you insane? Have you seen how many models there are here? Even he couldn't afford the child support payments.

Jeremy Irons

Whether they will be splitting royalties and how they will track downloads and payments are important questions the parliament will have to answer.

Mukul Krishna

You can prepay at any time. If you're making much better money in two years you can begin making triple payments if you like.

Sue Miller

I'll have to borrow the money and rent it often enough to pay the payments so that, 20 years from now, when I retire, I've paid it off and got a little place where I can go to the beach in the wintertime.

Glenn Richardson

We want to be careful and responsible. We roll over all of our mortgage payments toward building new houses.

David Tracy

The bank called me and told me to expect a big negative chunk because Northwest had declared bankruptcy and gone back and reversed the payments.

John Cousins

This approach has rewarded the over-utilization and misuse of services and resulted in higher payments when health care complications arise.

Karen Ignagni

Sometimes, the (payment) rate is too high and Medicaid has to adjust the rate and recoup payments made.

Jonathan Burns

Gambro manipulated the system to receive improper Medicaid payments, and this scheme cost taxpayers across the country millions of dollars.

Jay Nixon

Now, making payments is as easy as sending a text message.

Jeff Jordan

A meeting was held to discuss some Zimbabwe Cricket ideas for making progress on negotiations. But they have dug their heels in and are all adamant there will be no talks until payments have been fully made.

Clive Field

They're doing a fantastic job, ... When I first took over as district attorney, we were collecting $1 million a year in child support payments. Now we're collecting $1 million a month in child support payments.

Tim Kuykendall

Dividing the fees into 12 payments is something that will be more fair to the businesses.

Sandy Johnston

Will make it more difficult for airlines to convince a bankruptcy judge that they cannot make reasonable pension payments.

Johnny Isakson

Say you are five months behind on your mortgage payment, and the lender will not take partial payments. You can say, 'I will make my normal payment plus 1/ 36th of my arrearage a month over three years.' The lender is forced to accept that if the court approves it.

Rick Harper

But even when liability has been imposed, it has ultimately been paid by a combination of corporate directors and officers liability insurance. Settlements in the Enron case may indicate a change to history because individual directors at Enron had to make significant payments from their personal assets.

Derek Hong

We have not paid and we are not paying monthly payments to Karin Stanford. The allegation is $10,000. We do not pay her any monthly compensation, ... Number two, we are not buying her, nor have we paid for a house for Karin Stanford, and third of all, the $35,000 she received was severance pay.

James Meeks

All payments will be done by way of bank transfer, no longer in cash. But we need to build the infrastructure because not all missions have the necessary facilities.

Desra Percaya

Essentially, Congress directed airlines to pay TSA what they previously spent on screening of passengers and baggage. And those payments were based on a GAO analysis.

Andrea Mccauley

When you couple the higher bills that people with adjustable loans saw with the higher-than-expected energy costs, you see a lot of homeowners stretched beyond the point where they could make their payments.

Rick Sharga

W e were buying it from my grandmother making payments every month .

Dale Moll

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Tim Barrett

It appears our nation's pattern of payments is finally evolving - some might say it is experiencing a radical change - from one based on paper checks to one based on electronics.

Anthony Santomero

An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.

Harlan Loeb

The Act cuts direct payments available to farmers before planting in 2007 from 50% to 22% of the total annual payment. This does not affect what producers will get in total, but does affect when they receive their payments.

Pat Westhoff

Physicians are no different than you or me. They have a mortgage payment. They have tuition payments, ... They are still here on their own good will, but they are not getting paid for it.

Mark Peters

Most people in Chapter 13 are behind on their mortgage and want to save the house. This keeps the creditors away as long as the person makes the agreed-to payments.

Mike Hacker

Those payments are seized by the government.

Cindy Hockenberry

The whole notion of alternative payments is really growing as an industry.

Lauren Freedman

If we agree that there were overpayments, HHSC will bill school districts and return the federal share of the payments to the Medicaid program.

Stephanie Goodman

It's worse to lose your home than to miss a few credit card payments, frankly.

Gerri Detweiler

Responded by rejecting any limits on their authority and directing us to enter into an agreement with Local 5 providing for future payments of the same kind.

Robert Murphy

It's very difficult to have a budget for utilities if they're bouncing around all over the place. If they can somehow stabilize or make those payments more even, it really connects well for financial planning.

Bryan Clintsman

There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It's all by the books.

Marc Cohen

It's better to delay implementation than to move forward before we are ready and potentially jeopardize continuity of care for our members, claims payments for providers or the financial integrity of the department.

Dr. Rhonda Medows

FEMA payments for hotel or motel rooms will end on Feb 7 for those who did not obtain a code. Once a family has their unique code, they will be eligible for a hotel reimbursement.

Susan Sullivan

We continue to be far from that mark here in New Jersey. Once again, a confluence of pressures, ranging from inadequate payments from governmental payers to a growing number of uninsured all contributed to the stagnant bottom lines.

Gary Carter

No tenants are found, no rental payments are collected, no mortgage payments are made, the house goes into default, turns out it's not worth anything, and the borrower is left holding the bag and their credit is destroyed.

Rachel Dollar

There have been questions regarding the sources of funds for the payments that Zimbabwe has been making.

Thomas Dawson

Higher expected yields result in higher guarantees. Higher guarantees then increase chances of receiving insurance payments and increase the amount of payments when they occur.

Gary Schnitkey

One of our biggest factors was cash flow. We were trying to see what we could do to reduce our monthly payments.

Robert Stuart

To get everyone to behave well, you often see these payments. You pay a relatively modest amount of money to avoid a costly legal situation.

David Yermack

I know of one million-dollar player who gets about half his money from a commercial arrangement and no one over there (east coast) has kicked up about it. What we're doing isn't new. Commercial payments have been around rugby for some time.

Peter O'meara

It's important to keep in mind that these tax credits are credits against Dell tax payments that wouldn't exist without significant investment from Dell. In the case of North Carolina, it's a performance basis. Dell doesn't get tax credits unless we meet job creation targets. . . . That's good for Dell and good for North Carolina.

Colleen Ryan

On the face of it, this looks like a pro-consumer move. On the other hand, it's actually a disaster for lots and lots of consumers who are living on all that borrowed money, whose cash flow is based on smaller minimum payments.

Milo Mumgaard

They are shocked by the increases (in monthly payments) they are getting.

Chris Viale

So making sure your handling how payments are going to be handled, how disputes are going to be handled, how changes, and even itemizing, for example if you are doing a kitchen or something, itemizing exactly what kind of appliances and even make and model that are going to be put in.

Angie Hicks

We're a what's-my-monthly-payment nation. The idea is to have my monthly payments as high as I can take. If you cut interest rates, I'll get a bigger car.

Paul Kasriel

Exxon Mobil has no knowledge of any illegal payments made to Kazakh officials.

Tom Cirigliano

Lawmakers will need to adjust Medicare's payments to realistically compensate doctors for the extra time they spend on assessing geriatric patients and coordinating geriatric care teams.

Daniel Perry

One of the questions the Commission is looking into is the fees that the banks must pay each other for carrying those credit card payments, and there we expect a decision before the end of the year.

Amelia Torres

Now states are addicted to this money. The state, for better or for worse -- we are wedded now to those payments.

Trey Walker

Nothing in the bankruptcy code requires companies to skip their pension funding payments.

Bradley Belt

Consumers have a lot of payments they have to make and a significant number of those are rising.

Bob Allsbrook

There are different components to the problem [of low-value payments]. First, you have to make a business case for all parties involved -- issuers and merchants. Second, you have to give consumers a value proposition to make it attractive for them.

Gwenn Bézard

The act provided guaranteed payments to rural counties for road maintenance and schools.

Mark Rey

The Company netted positive cash flow of $15.9 million during 2005 -- after funding all of our operating needs, $20.2 million in capital expenditures, $15.0 million in pension contributions, $5.2 million in restructuring costs, and $26.6 million in dividend payments.

Dennis Rediker

We are seeing a huge increase in all import bills. Some of them are beginning to feel pressure on the external balance of payments. Fiscal strains in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh are particularly huge.

Ifzal Ali

If political tension cannot be resolved by June, it could lead to an alarming imbalance in the trade account, the current account and the balance of payments.

Ampon Kittiampon

Payments received in lieu of taxes.

George Russell

Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes just as you plan ahead to pay for holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, and more.

Cate Williams

Our emphasis has been to educate the giving potential -- whatever you can give over three years in monthly payments.

Michael Mcdonald

It's a shame. We had just sent all our payments in.

Brian Glenn

It's really for the needy. I don't know where you draw the line for needy, but I sure needed the money for house payments.

Debbie Sauer

We try to handle everything administratively first. If the non-custodial parent is in jail, no one gets any money. It is important to get the person who isn't making their payments back on track.

Aaron Harris

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Samah Haggag

The banks and payment processors were supposed to make the changes in account numbers so that online customers' payments would go through smoothly, and in some cases, the changes weren't made properly.

Rand Lavonn

It's a small industry that sells protection in the event you can't make your payments. Essentially, you buy it and it's very expensive; it's not a good deal.

Stephen Brobeck

I'm going to have to do without to make those payments.

Larry Bronson

People who calculated what they could afford when rates were 5.25 percent have realized their mortgage payments are going to be a lot higher now that rates have gone up, so they're going for interest-only loans.

Anthony Hsieh

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Frank Badillo

The payments from the government are not covering the cost of caring for this population group.

Karen Ignagni

There's a constant rate of retirees, pension and medical payments. Nucor doesn't have that, so it's tough competing with that.

John Tumazos

There is significant saving on interest payments because of lower interest rates.

Euben Paracuelles

Anyway Kenny, Yellow MegaMan is only $8.95, so maybe your mom can put it on layaway and make payments for a year or two.

Eric Cartman