For example, Mr. Parker, the state senator who fended off primary challengers, reported payments of $35,000 this year to Data and Field Services, a profit-making company set up by Working Families to act as a vendor to candidates.
It was designed to curtail tax evasion by requiring businesses to report payments of $600 or more a year to any vendor.
The so-called "nice" debt collection agency Access Receivables recently reported payment increase of 40percentt after shifting to a new strategy that emphasized customer service instead of hostility.
The units of analysis for these tests were mentions of reported payment sources.
Only a small minority of patients reported payments for anti-TB drugs.
But against the odds, and not without struggle, Mr. Janeczko steered his Long Island City, N.Y., start-up, called Nu-Kitchen, to sales that doubled annually through 2008, when the company was snatched up by the diet industry giant NutriSystem for a reported initial payment of $4 million.
Companies varied in their categorization of the reasons for payments, for example AstraZeneca and Merck only reported payments to speakers, whereas Eli Lilly, Cephalon and Pfizer reported payments for a variety of services, including meals, travel, and consulting.
For total OOP payments, 5.6% of households reported payments greater than 40% of total expenditure; this proportion doubled, when the threshold was set relative to share of non-food expenditure.
BEIJING (Reuters) — The crew of a Chinese cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in mid-October was safely rescued early Monday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said, making no mention of a reported ransom payment.
