Plastic notes are also less prone to tearing, lasting four times as long as the average paper bill, and carry fewer germs, because paper absorbs sweat and moisture more easily.
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U.S. Bank is using Mitek's patented Mobile Photo Bill Pay technology that automatically and securely extracts relevant information from the paper bill and populates the fields required to make a mobile payment.
Like a street beggar putting a few quarters and a dollar bill into the paper cup.
For example, paying by direct debit with online bills would be cheaper than receiving a paper bill and paying by cheque.
The congressman already has more than half of his House colleagues as cosponsors for his bill to require paper backups on electronic voting machines.
Every time someone decides to stop receiving a paper bill, 24 pieces of First Class mail per year disappear forever (the bill, and the payment, each 12 times per year).
This move, according to Ann Robinson, of price comparison website Uswitch, is leading to a narrowing of the gap between the annual cost to those paying when they receive a paper bill and those on an online tariff.
Mr Bryant also repeated his criticisms of the "hypocrisy" of Commons procedures, claiming that Mr Gummer's bill stood no chance of progressing because there were another 93 private member's bill on the order paper before it.
Indeed, using more sophisticated means, including comparing T-bill rates to interest on commercial paper, the authors conclude that default led to a persistent increase in T-bill rates and, therefore, higher borrowing costs for the federal government.
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Haynes' background paper on the bill cites stories carried in Investor's Business Daily last year as a big reason for the move.
He said the commission hoped to publish an interim paper on the bill of rights in the autumn which would aid a proposed cross-party forum on the issue.
The broad outlines of this bill are already known: the government published a White Paper just before Christmas, and a draft bill will be published shortly to allow time for public comment.
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But in a consultation paper published alongside the Bill, Mr Davey said energy-intensive industries, such as steel and cement producers, would be exempt from additional costs arising from measures to encourage investment in new low-carbon production.
But I think the fundamental argument, which is perfectly sound and perfectly in keeping with both the white paper and the House bill, that we want to try to get banks back to the core function of relating to clients and not taking excess risky activities in the financial system.
Have a look at our story and the Roadmap itself (it appears as a policy paper and as an actual bill).
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And with that, the waiter comes along with a bill and, rather appropriately, a paper receipt, prompting a smile from Stegmann and bringing our latest Shoreditch tech safari to an end.
You could lock Bill Belichick in a closet with a paper clip and velociraptors, and he'd come back 15 minutes later with 80 pounds of veloci-steaks and six draft picks from the Raiders.
But the new code retains a controversial U-turn relating to grammar schools that was in a draft published last year - then withdrawn during the row over the white paper that preceded the education bill.
The Welsh government has published a green paper asking whether a Public Health Bill is needed.
Newspapers are full of stories about how email, online bill-paying and other advances have rendered paper mail obsolete.
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Holt has been trying for years to get a bill passed that would require some form of paper ballots on all voting machines.
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller said earlier this year that his paper was also investigating the possibility of its own Wikileaks-style secure electronic dropbox.
But if you visualized the bill as a bound and printed document, set in paper if not stone, then you were mistaken.
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Why the Value of Paper Money Declines as the Quantity Rises by Bill Bonner originally appeared in the Daily Reckoning.
For a minute they stared at each other, and then Mami let the bill go, the force between them so strong the paper popped.
Last week Bill Cash joined John Redwood and Bernard Jenkin to launch a paper arguing that the benefits of the single market are overstated.
As Love Me Do climbed the charts, he put them on the bill for one of his shows in Peterborough (the local paper complained that Ringo "made far too much noise").
Mr Lewis said a white paper would be published in the spring, with the bill provisionally planned for introduction in the third year of the legislative programme, in 2013-14.
Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.
This wide-ranging bill implements much of Education Secretary Michael Gove's flagship schools white paper.
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