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When we celebrate a political leader or a business leader for the disaster she just cleaned up or the announcement she just made, we're not motivating that leader to invest in preventing those disasters in the first place, or to put down payments on the future by protecting communities from floods or fighting inequality or investing in research and education.
Your insurance payments didn't go through.
And then the last thing that's happened is of course the cell phone revolution, so we're piggybacking off the cell phone revolution, and we can now make decentralized customers make small payments for bits of equipment and appliances where actually they're now affordable.
You can do it with threats of coercion, "sticks," you can do it with payments, "carrots," or you can do it by getting others to want what you want.
Bronson took the money and ran with this film; he must have house payments like me!
They have no mortgages, rent payments or idiot bosses.
Homeless people don't have to worry about the IRS or performance reviews or credit card payments.
If you want to see Stacey keach and Michael dorn try and earn what must have been then, the down payments on a holiday home then stay tuned.
Seven Pounds stars Will Smith as Ben Thomas, an IRS collection agent who has an ulterior motive for meeting those who have gotten behind on their tax payments.
American icon Henry Fonda portrays "Elegant" John Howard, an aging trucker who has had his beloved big rig "Eleanor" repossessed after a lengthy hospital stay has forced him to miss his payments.
Perhaps she was in a financial pinch, and needed the quick cash to keep up on the payments of her Land Rover.
Having a 50-something therapist constantly with the band, helping them explore their feelings, all on a documentary for all to see, showed how much of a slave these guys have become to their mortgage payments.
Mickle came to introduce his film at the Belgian Horror & Fantasy Festival and explained how they had to shoot essential footage in the middle of the crowded streets of Manhattan without any official permission to film there, and how all the actors in this film are friends or in some way related to the director, so none of them received any payments.
His motivation for choosing her becomes apparent when he admits that Denise has made the payments on his house that kept them out of foreclosure.
A very sad effort and a waste of time for everyone involved, from the beginning Production Assistants on the set to the suits authorizing payments in the board rooms, the only positive use of this disaster would be to use it in a "Film Class" to show others how not to produce a movie.
Matt Dillon's character is divorced, has killer alimony payments, but would like to invest in a bowling alley with his buddies.
In another World Bank-EBRD survey, 40% of firms in Russia reported making frequent unofficial payments, and roughly the same percentage indicated that corruption is a serious problem in doing business.
In Kenya, the success of M-Pesa, a mobile payments app, has been nothing short of transformational.
It took PayPal two NASDAQ listings and almost two decades operating in the world’s largest economy to reach 188 million active customers and $282 billion in annual payments.
Similarly, bKash now dominates the payments system in Bangladesh to such a degree that “bKashing” has become common Bengali parlance, just as “Xeroxing,” “Hoovering,” and “Googling” are in English.
Emerging fintech services can take a lesson from the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, which was quick in leveraging its payments platform, Alipay.
Low down payments, deferred interest, and other enticements made it attractive for people to buy their own homes (or to speculate with second homes) whether they could afford to or not.
But an alternative accounting method could also be used, registering expenditures when payments – in accordance with front-loaded schedules – were actually made.
High home prices are already putting great stress on many families, which are struggling to make their mortgage payments.
When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.
If one borrows the equivalent of three years' income to buy a house, a mortgage rate of 6% means that 18% of one's income goes to interest payments, which may be tolerable.
But if the rate rises to 8%, mortgage interest payments rise to 24%, which, together with amortization, taxes, other debts, and necessary expenditures, may claim too much of the family budget.
This is because if they have to move and sell their house, there may be no buyers who can afford higher interest payments, unless the home's price also falls.
Why?Government promises made today but doled out tomorrow, such as social security payments, do not show up in annual budgets.
The movement started a few years ago with the Publish What You Pay campaign, which urged oil and mining companies to disclose payments to governments.
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