The union offers a multi-employer set-up, into which labels are supposed to pay a percentage of artists’ wages, but things are still tough.

该协会还提供一项多雇主计划，即唱片公司将按百分比支付艺人酬劳，然而事情仍不容乐观。

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Even the most diversified companies have become dependent on people's willingness to pay hefty bills for multi-channel television each month.

即便是最多元化的公司也都已经是依赖于人们的意愿来支付每个月多频道电视的巨额费用。

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Nor did the FSA seem exercised by the news earlier this month that Barclays, a rapidly expanding bank, had agreed to pay a few new recruits multi-year guaranteed bonuses.

本月早些时候快速扩张的巴克莱银行决定向少数新增员工发放多年保证奖金，这一行为也没有引起金融服务监管局的任何行动。

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In advance of President Obama's meeting this week with BP executives, the government is in discussions with the company on a multi-billion-dollar fund that would pay out on claims filed by individuals and businesses.

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Meaning that a single unit owner or a multi unit owner pay the same price for their cost of goods.

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This week's strikes are probably a blip: multi-year pay deals have settled most of the tricky public-sector pay questions and there is scant sign of wage pressures in the private sector.

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The driving force for all of this is the multi-million pound pay-off if the waste can be dumped secretly.

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