Word: payment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...local morgue dealt with those bodies, and they were all claimed by family members, so they aren't his problem. He has more pressing concerns. The escalation of killings in Baghdad puts him under tremendous financial strain: he makes his living as a professional mortician but receives no payment for burying unclaimed bodies, which he sees as a religious duty. He estimates that each body he buries costs him $20, including the price of the body bag, the coarse white cotton shroud, gravediggers' fees, transportation costs and the grave itself. Recently, he's taken to burying two bodies in each...
...were up 72% over a year earlier, according to a study by RealtyTrak Inc. of Irvine, Calif. And in such states as Alabama, Michigan and Missouri, a fifth of homeowners in the higher-interest subprime category of ARMS were at least 30 days late in making a mortgage payment at the end of 2005, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association...
...Corp., a company headed by Wilkes, Foggo's friend since childhood, according to disclosure forms Bassett filed when he was a House intelligence committee aide to Goss while the former Congressman was the panel's Republican chairman. Bassett was not working for the CIA at the time of the payment. Still, it may not look good for yet another of Goss's right-hand men to be associated with Wilkes - whom prosecutors allege, in Cunningham's guilty plea, provided more than $600,000 of the $2.4 million in bribes that landed Cunningham a more than eight-year federal prison sentence...
...Plenty of pols write books; only some are deep thinkers, fewer still are prepared to serve up ideas that go against party doctrine. An economist with big dreams, Emerson ranges widely and passion-ately from health to education, infrastructure to population policy, tax to trade. He proposes a universal payment to mothers of children aged under three, equity (rather than debt) funding of students in higher education, and a revival of economic activity in the regions. Many have spoken of the nation's complacency; its obsession with material wealth and comfort at the expense of the next generation. Emerson...
That's what horrifies the staff chiefs. Until now, Republicans consoled themselves in this worsening political environment with the belief that congressional elections are local popularity contests. Now that the monthly price of driving to work rivals the mortgage payment, gasoline, more than any other issue, could turn this election into a national referendum. With the G.O.P.'s popularity gauge already down a couple of quarts, Rove was told that if the White House didn't do something, anything, about energy costs, Congress could put the President in the position of using his first veto to kill a windfall-profits...