Young Egyptians often remain in Italy to work, sometimes in dire conditions, to pay off debts their families have incurred to send them abroad.
"To give them [our customers] peace of mind, we've made a promise (subject to certain conditions) to pay the full target value on mortgage endowment plans," said the company in its 2000 annual report.
Do we care enough about Chinese factory conditions to pay nearly twice as much for our phones, tablets, cameras, TVs, computers, GPS units, camcorders, music players, DVD players, DVRs, networking gear and stereo equipment?
It would also undermine the insurance exchanges set up under the A.C.A., by stripping away the subsidies for the purchase of policies, abolishing the employer and individual mandates, getting rid of the lifetime caps on health-care outlays, and allowing insurers to force people with preëxisting conditions to pay more.
After crossing the border into China, as most defectors do, he spent nearly a year working in atrocious conditions to pay off his debt to the snakehead who got him there, living under the constant threat of arrest.The risks of defection are enormous.
Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, and other companies agreed, among other conditions, to pay a "penny per pound" premium that growers pass along to workers.
While people have been conditioned to pay for television content, there is still resistance to paying for entertainment on the Internet -- pornography and gambling excepted.
In Germany and France, for example, consumers are conditioned to pay heavily discounted prices for new cellphones in exchange for one- to two-year service commitments.
Once you finally impinge upon it, they'll look up, steer around you, and walk on, ever so slightly conditioned to pay more attention next time.
Neil Hunt, chief executive of the society, says, "The horrific truth is that the current charging system leaves vulnerable people who have a devastating and incurable condition to pay for essential help".
Users are conditioned to pay for apps.
