Contractors raise money to build schools and hospitals and the government then makes a series of payments over the lifetime of the project.
Offering a pension is like incurring a debt, since it involves the promise of a series of future payments.
Unfortunately, as prices fell in the late 1990s, farmers howled and received a series of emergency payments that pushed up total support.
In his report into police pay and conditions last year, Mr Winsor called for the abolition of a series of allowances and special payments and for a pay system that recognised hard work and merit instead of long service.
Work and Pensions Minister Steve Webb accused Labour of announcing a series of "one-off" payments to pensioners ahead of the last general election, despite planning to reverse these bonuses if it had been re-elected.
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Instead you can receive distributions from your IRA that are part of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) based on your life expectancy or the joint life expectancies of you and your beneficiary without having to pay the 10 percent penalty.
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The quick and easy answer is to set up a buy-sell agreement to have her make installment payments over a series of years.
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The purchase may be made outright (lump sum) or through a series of deferred (installment) payments.
Paypal, for example, has a series of Fraud Management Filters that screen payments and sort out transactions that warrant review because of their amount, their origin, or other factors that can be set by a merchant.
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Instead, they entail a series of balloon, as in big, payments.
In the 1950s, the IRS issued a series of rulings according tax-free status for payments to survivors of Nazi persecution, U.S. prisoners of war, and Japanese-American internees.
The deficit savings outlined in the health care bill obviously depend on a series of future actions such as the Cadillac tax going into effect or doctor payments remaining unchanged, for example.
Bernanke enumerated a series of measures including putting upward pressure on short-term interest rates through interest payments on reserves held by financial institutions, ceasing reinvestment of principal payments on securities held by the Fed, and even selling those securities in the open market. (Read Bernanke Put Allows JP Morgan To Post Profits On 96.9% Of 2010 Trading Days).
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The government introduced a series of restrictions to control house purchases in several cities this year, requiring higher down payments and bringing in property taxes for the first time.
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