But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?
He has cut civil-service pay by 5%, raised VAT and ridden out a general strike.
Service pay has badly lagged the rest of the economy since the big boosts of the early 1980s.
And government debt is rising due to overgenerous civil-service pay and benefits (including index-linked pay rises twice a year).
Laying the burden of establishing high post-service salary levels on the military is misguided, though in-service pay should be competitive.
They included reduced unemployment benefits, civil-service pay cuts, making Spaniards retire later and the privatisation of railways, ports and airports.
The Smarter Checkout solution also allows the customers to use their mobile devices to process orders, redeem digital coupons, access loyalty points, and pay for purchases at IBM self-service pay counters.
The relationship is strong enough, Ms Van Rijckeghem and Ms Weder reckon, to suggest that raising average civil-service pay from 100% to 200% of the manufacturing wage reduces corruption by about one unit in the corruption index.
It puts in place mechanisms to make sure that we only pay once for each service and that each service we pay for is covered in a legitimate charge.
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That's the price distributors and service stations pay to buy the gasoline that they then sell to drivers.
Starting today, premium users of the IAC-owned dating service can pay for their subscriptions with the untraceable peer-to-peer digital currency.
Mr. Donahoe said the Postal Service would pay its employees and critical vendors but might skip some payments to others.
Should Americans enlist in the armed forces, join the foreign service, pay more taxes, do volunteer work, study foreign languages, travel to Muslim countries?
If the IRS agrees, you may be granted up to 180 days after termination or release from military service to pay the tax without interest or penalty.
Service providers pay for real-time TV services on a per-subscriber basis and for consumer purchases of a movie on-demand or a Pay-Per-View event via a transaction fee.
More than half of people using the service only pay others without expecting to get paid on Flattr, which suggests that our give to get rule is outdated.
Service stations pay their bills on money made when people go inside to get things like coffee and Ring Dings, which are often sold at a decent mark-up.
Sixty percent of those who flocked to the site were abroad, in South America, Eastern Europe and Africa, places where people often have to buy top-up cards at corner stores for their cell service or pay online with credit cards (which they may not have).
Since most Indian consumers pay for cellular and mobile data service on a pay-as-you-go basis, Peeks there will be offered on a prepaid basis, as well as by monthly subscription.
Similar to pre-paid phone service, customers pay up front before they receive the service.
If Medicare might not or will not pay for a service, a doctor and patient can fill out a form called the Advance Beneficiary Notice, which states that if Medicare does not reimburse the claim, the patient will pay for the service.
Ms. Homsey's right when she says there's little correlation between good service and higher pay.
The paper cites the continued deferral of water charges as well as swine flu and civil service back-pay.
"The modern consumer wants to purchase online, receive streamlined service, and pay only for services they use, " added Bullock.
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In the United Kingdom, new drugs like Perjeta have to be cost-effective before the National Health Service there will pay for them.
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The key, he thinks is whether a site becomes popular enough to flip part of the model to a pay service, such as an iPad application.
Then came premium networks, and tiers of service, and pay-per-view, and internet access... and today, cable operators are selling everything from phone service to interactive gaming.
Yabuki believes that more granular information--how people are using their bank accounts, online bill-pay service, debit cards and credit cards--will make predictions of default rates more accurate.
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