What alarms Labour politicians is that voters appear to have stopped thinking of benefits as social security - something they pay into for use in hard times - but rather as a charity handout to the poor, and that this will fatally undermine the welfare state.
People in rural areas and small towns don't pay for water, and it's only in the bigger cities that residents--those who are on the meter and aren't stealing water--pay for what they use.
Mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) is attempting to price IT services the way water and electricity are--pay for what you use.
To get the seal, a company must pay for testing by an independent AOA-chosen lab and also pay a licensing fee for use of the seal.
While the IRS has long had a program (recently beefed up) to pay informants, the Germans' decision to pay for hot documents--and other countries' willingness to use them--was a big step for the Europeans, who rarely take as hard a line against evasion.
According to focus-group studies, pay-day customers are most likely to use the cash for car and home repairs, Christmas shopping, and school expenses, although inevitably some also use the money to go on holiday.
This account allows you to save money on a pre-tax basis, and then to use it tax free to pay for qualified out-of-pocket medical expenses.
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Lala's current business model, which has changed almost as many times as Michael Jackson's nose, is to let you play a track once for free and then choose either to pay 10 cents for it as an unlimited-use Web song that lives online, or buy it as an MP3 download for 89 cents.
It's faster than a credit card or cash and it works so fast that Chicago-area McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ) burger joints now let customers use their Speedpass to pay for food.
Perhaps consumers would pay on a per-use basis or for individual applications they find valuable.
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After what had appeared at the outset to be a big legal battle for Hitachi, in June Hitachi agreed to pay royalties for its use of Rambus-designed technology in Hitachi memory chips and microprocessors.
Recently, a 50-year-old friend asked me where to put extra cash he wanted to save for retirement, but was worried he might have to use to pay college bills for his high-school age twins.
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There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
Though slightly better pay for use of new media--the issue at the center of the writers' strike--was agreed upon, the topic was largely tabled until the next negotiation.
The market is attractive to operators, partly because Japanese consumers have shown themselves more willing than Europeans to use - and pay more for - new services, such as always-on internet access and email.
The Soviet armed forces' appetite for sophisticated "dual-use" technology vastly exceeds Moscow's ability to pay for it.
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Ideal for anyone planning a short stay abroad, the new packages offer tremendous value over pay-per-use rates and help keep wireless bills predictable by giving customers a bucket of minutes for one flat price when roaming in more than 220 countries.
It turns out that they also choose, and mostly pay for, more than half of the laptops and even about one-quarter of the desktop PCs they use for work.
Customers also should be aware that changing banks can be an arduous process for people who use automated bill-pay and other services.
Companies that use an outcome-based approach pay for results, not by the hour.
Ms Spelman had found herself at the centre of a row over the use of expenses to pay her nanny - for which she is being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog.
Customers (in this case the school district) pay no money up-front, paying only for the solar energy they use and typically seeing reductions on their utility bills as soon as the system is connected to the grid.
No problem, net execs say: While DVRs and other gear may proliferate, most viewers won't use the gadgets as ad-killers or pay for commercial-free programs.
As individuals we're always most careful with our own money, and if our employers require us to pay out of pocket for routine, non-catastrophic care, we'll necessarily use the funds provided more wisely.
Instead of getting used to spending that additional income, use it to pay down high-interest debt, save for a rainy day, or contribute more to your retirement account.
School vouchers would allow parents to use public funds to pay for places in private schools - and it has been proposed as a way of providing an alternative to failing inner-city schools.
American Express is now allowing card members to apply membership rewards points to their smartphone-enabled retail gift cards, then use them to instantly pay for purchases with their mobile device at select stores.
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Major publishers are taking wildly different approaches to resolving the woes surrounding e-book lending at libraries: they're experimenting with both the short-yet-cheap subscription as well as an expensive option to pay only once for perpetual use.
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For a range of fees, it has begun offering faster delivery, pay-per-use technical support and consultants to help customers use their plastics more efficiently.
MPs' expenses have been scrutinised since Tory MP Derek Conway was reprimanded for his use of allowances to pay his son, who was a full-time university student at the time.
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