Schlumberger, for example, will agree to a measure of payment-for-performance in big contracts.

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The payment may have been a simple competitive measure, analysts have said, however new reports have emerged that question the payments.

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His budget specified these savings despite saying that he would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key Medicare cost-control measure included in Obamacare.

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Accounts receivable days is a standard measure of the average number of days a company takes to collect payment on goods or services it sold.

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My money is on NFC paired with a robust payment platform, and maybe a partnership or two thrown in for good measure.

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These include a measure to allow anybody setting up a new business to delay for at least a year the payment of onerous social security charges.

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In 73% of cases, the rules state that pensions in payment have a link to RPI, with just 10% using whatever the government's preferred measure might be, and 17% have some other sort of measure altogether.

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