On the plus side: responsibility and opportunity, interesting work, the chance to make a difference in the lives of other people, learning, power, pay and perks.
It always amazes me when people who are deeply in debt to their credit card companies fail to do everything in their power to pay it off immediately.
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It of course makes everyone a millionaire, gives everyone the spending power to pay off their debts, put some into savings and investments, buy the things they need to make life a little easier for a while.
According to the EPA, a motorist who drives the Volt exclusively on electric power will pay an estimated 4 cents per mile in energy costs, while one who never recharges the battery and runs the car exclusively on gasoline (with premium grade required) will pay 9 cents per mile.
It would also have approval power over the pay packages of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives.
The power company will pay compensation in certain circumstances but not for freezer contents - that is a matter for insurers.
The Labour government came to power promising to pay for extra spending on schools and hospitals by cutting back on welfare payments.
Inevitably, it is those among us with the least political power who will pay the highest price for these exceptions to the rule.
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But the only way that this will happen is for us citizens to take our power back, pay attention, and hold our elected officials to account.
Everyone supplying electricity to end users must purchase some amount of that higher cost power: or pay a fine (by way of purchasing a renewables certificate) for not doing so.
The Dodd-Frank financial law broadened the rules instituted in the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which gave companies the power to recoup pay from top executives after a financial restatement or certain misconduct.
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As for the other two proposals, on giving investors the formal power to block pay awards and on forcing the remuneration committee to have a workforce rep as a voting member, goodness only knows whether they will be enacted or squished.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
Bentek explained in a report this week that the abundance of hydropower, especially in the Columbia River Basin, will lead to historically rare negative power prices (where the generating companies actually pay consumers to take the power) as well as a marked reduction in demand for natural gas.
Fitful power means firms often pay for television ads that viewers do not get to see.
Or, they could decide not to change their power consumption ways and pay a much bigger bill.
An easy-to-use, free-of-charge ombudsman service for people exploited by unfair credit practices with the power to make firms pay compensation.
Its customers sign a lease or power purchase agreement and pay a monthly fee for the solar electricity from their rooftop systems.
"Big companies who have the muscle power to command and pay the rents are squeezing the small independents out, " said Ms Williams, owner of the Picture Cafe.
The integration of China and other emerging economies into the world trading system has, in effect, more than doubled the global labour force, and by curbing workers' bargaining power it has restrained pay demands in most developed economies in recent years.
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After Mirant, another power producer, found itself on the verge of a debt-induced meltdown two years ago, it decided to pay only portions of obligations while betting the power market would strengthen enough to give it the cash to pay its interest bills.
It said that Zimbabwean embassies abroad face power cuts because they cannot pay their bills.
And it helps women stabilize their financial situations, increasing their earning power and decreasing the gender pay gap.
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Under state law, Georgia Power's customers must pay for the nuclear plant unless regulators find its costs were unreasonable.
Vermonters pay less for power than any other state in New England, an average of 13 cents a kilowatt-hour.
People need to pay for electric power or the system will literally collapse.
Households and firms are loth to pay more for power that now seems to run only every other hour.
Luckily, these folks will pay for the power and customizability of this product which also allows us to built it close to home.
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