In an effort to show that the U.S. government is serious about deficit reduction, President Obama is proposing that all civilian federal government workers receive a pay-freeze through 2012.
Some corporate boards ought to at least consider a return to what was once the norm in both America and Europe (and still is in Japan) and largely ditch pay-for-performance and instead pay largely through a straight salary (most lower-level employees are paid this way).
As the owners have invested in other digital video initiatives building up their own websites, streaming shows to pay-TV subscribers through a strategy called "TV Everywhere, " and licensing some content to other subscription video players like Netflix Inc.
Instead, consumers are increasingly turning to the already popular disc-rental option, while consuming more and more on-demand video through both their pay-TV subscriptions and Internet-based subscription services like Netflix, Adams noted.
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While it is getting harder to get users to pay for apps - except through those notorious in-app purchases - the museum may find it is on a winner with Pompeii.
But government regulators say it never really went away, and now the pay-offs are hidden through middlemen who are so-called independent record promoters who give radio stations prizes that are meant for listeners.
But rather like today's directory inquiries, you have to pay to search the historic directories through the subscription and pay-per-view website.
This suggests scope for a real cut in public pay of around 5%, which could be delivered through a two-year pay freeze.
"It's the first channel that's available both through traditional pay-television bundling, and via your broadband provider as a stand-alone (service), " he said.
The current reform options provide financial incentives for medium- and large-sized firms to provide health insurance coverage through so-called "pay-or-play" provisions.
Although some outrageous pay deals do get waved through, there is evidence that the pay-for-performance model is functioning reasonably well and that boards have more clout than Mr Buffett seems to think.
The lawsuits come at a particularly sensitive time for Morgan Stanley and the brokerage industry which recently came through a separate pay-to-play scandal involving mutual funds.
In federal tax terms, it's a "pass-through" entity, meaning it doesn't pay federal corporate-income taxes at all.
' new release and catalog films this summer through the first national Pay-Per-View and Video On Demand platform in China.
Drivers could order and pay in the McDonald's drive-through lane or synch a car's music system with a home computer.
In September, BATS will pay brokers to send NYSE-listed orders through its site in the hopes of juicing its volume.
In another financing solution, Simpa Networks provides solar power in rural India on a pay-as-you-go service through mobile payments.
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Prosecutors had claimed that the five former council members and former mayor illegally inflated their pay through roles with other city-related entities.
Alfred Berkeley, chairman of Pipeline Trading Systems, says all broker-dealers and ATSs pay for regulation through 31a fees which go to the SEC.
There should also be a much wider range of packages on offer including pay-TV, broadband and phone services through the likes of BT Vision.
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Mr Crabb stressed the UK government's commitment to supporting the poorest in communities through clamping down on pay-day loans and doorstep lenders, and by offering winter fuel payments to help with increasing energy bills.
Where did this company come from: its convoluted odyssey includes a Brazilian computer maker going bankrupt in the 1990s, its assets sold off to pay its lawyers and a trickle-down through a reverse merger to venture capitalist Robert S. Goldman and others.
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There is the so-called big deal, where institutional subscribers pay for access to a collection of online journal titles through site-licensing agreements.
There would be subsidies for those who have financial difficulty getting private coverage--we could pay for it by redirecting regular tax expenditures, gaining administrative savings through one-stop enrollment for clients, electronic transfers of medical records and improvements in the health care information technology spectrum, and ending unneeded hospital emergency room visits.
Big cuts in public-sector pay and allowances have been pushed through in Ireland, Spain and Greece.
Tudou has been generating revenue on mobile since January 2010 through subscriptions or on a pay-per-clip basis.
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Mr Putin has given it a cheque for 25 billion roubles and promised to pay for transporting Lada cars through six time-zones to Russia's far east, where most people long ago ditched Ladas for second-hand Japanese cars.
Mr Obama has let one former tax-avoider through: Tim Geithner, the new treasury secretary, who failed to pay self-employment taxes when he was a consultant for the International Monetary Fund. (Foes of America's absurdly complicated tax code were delighted to note that even a reputedly brilliant economic mind failed to comply with it.) But with the financial and economic crisis raging, Mr Geithner appeared simply too important to lose.
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But having got approval to exit the TARP scheme - after raising cash through the sale of debt and equities - it is much freer to pay its staff as it sees fit.
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