Robert B. Fiske Jr., one of Mr. Taubman's lawyers, argued in federal district court that an $8 million severance payment made by Sotheby's rival, Christie's, to Christopher M. Davidge, its former chief executive, was in effect a payment for his testimony.
Should reviewers be paid or is there in effect a payment in kind, an altruistic understanding that acting as a peer reviewer supports the community?
Despite Mr. Ahmadinejad's suggestion that Mr. Bauer and Mr. Fattal would be released without conditions, there was confusion about whether they, too, would be required to post what the Iranian judiciary called bail — in effect, a ransom payment for their freedom.
Our DCE provides further evidence for this fear: reimbursement of service fees and an annual provision of medical supplies and materials by the CBI scheme had the greatest effect on whether a payment alternative was chosen or not, leading to the recommendation to diversify provider payment in the CBI to include these mechanisms.
And he showed his mettle by asking Israel to stop building settlements on occupied land in effect, a down-payment to get peace talks started.Mr Obama can still stir the heart: witness his address to the UN on Wednesday.
If a ridesharing company has 100 million credentials, they've solved half of the network effect problem of being a payment company — so you could imagine using that app as your wallet at, say, Walmart.
That in turn has meant there is no network effect, where I use a payment app because all of my friends use it and lots of businesses accept it.
Another 500,000 b/d or so of Iranian oil is temporarily off the market thanks both to the effects of European sanctions and a payment dispute with China.The cushion of spare supply is thin.
The only attribute level without a statistically significant effect on the selection of a payment alternative was household coverage as an indicator of evaluation for the RBF mechanism.
For the model that estimated interaction terms between sex and payment attributes (Model 2), the only interaction term that had a significant effect on the selection of a payment mechanism was that between being male and increased capitation payment through child subsidies (aOR 1.18, p = 0.003).
In the main-effects model, 100% reimbursement of service fees (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.49, p < 0.001) and donation of medical supplies and equipment (aOR 1.47, p < 0.001) had the largest effect on the probability of a payment alternative being chosen.
