A report recently released by Forrester Research, "2010: A Crossroads For NFC Mobile Payments," noted that 2010 would most likely bring a new era of these mobile payments as companies that have experimented with N.F.C. as a payment method, begin using it in the real world.
Cross-border payments are at a crossroads.
We now stand at a crossroads for the entire cross-border payments industry.
Its creditors include ALEC, the Koch brothers-backed conservative group, as well as the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, and it made payments to Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS.
PayPal, the electronic payments giant, found itself at a crossroads in 2015.
Dale Caldwell, chief executive of Crossroads, said the money would go toward making late payments on the theater's debt, now about $1.7 million.
In court, Crossroads argued that it was compelled to stop the payments to the two consultants, George C. Finley and Peter Kelly, both prominent Democrats with ties to leading state officials, because the Ethics Commission had ruled that paying them would be illegal.
The commission also fined the firm $2,000 for making the contingency payments, but Alan S. Plofsky, the executive director, stressed that Crossroads had inadvertently, not intentionally, violated Connecticut's lobbying laws.
Ms. Rogers, a single mother of two living in a three-bedroom ranch in suburban Boston, faces a rate increase of three percentage points, raising her monthly house payment by $300, to $1,419, and putting her at a financial crossroads.
