They had found a way to tack votes on a new press regulator onto other government bills setting up, for example, a National Crime Agency or a new law on defamation.

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People with backgrounds in accounting and finance are good candidates, and if you like to help the public get its finances in order by navigating bills, setting up budgets and keeping records, then this could be a profitable side business for you.

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Apart from the bank's restructuring, lawmakers were looking at a number of other bills including one setting up an "Investment Solidarity Fund" and restricting banking transactions in times of crisis.

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This includes creating a budget, ensuring that there will be enough savings for emergencies, and perhaps setting up automatic payments for essential bills.

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He spent 18 years litigating legal bills for insurance companies before setting his own firm, Sterling Analytics, to advise companies on how to root out questionable legal charges.

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The conflict is the latest bump in the road to setting up a system in which users can buy things and pay bills with their phones.

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That may well be in part because the government wants a bit of wriggle room to get its legislation through the House of Lords without setting itself a tight deadline, which could give opponents of its various big bills some extra leverage with which to extract concessions.

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Subscribers throughout the country will be able to make money transfers and savings deposits, pay bills, handle payrolls, and engage in mobile commerce activities without ever setting foot in a bank.

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The uncollected bills got so bad that managers at MCI, WorldCom, Sprint and elsewhere discussed setting up a database to track offenders.

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