Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, told reporters that BP should withhold dividends to shareholders until it paid small-business owners along the gulf for their loss claims.
It paid little attention to smaller deals and business brought to it by advertising agencies.
One of the examples of this kind of collaboration is a company that works in 3D graphics and has a long-term contract with the university for the calculations: it pays a small sum every month for a small amount of these calculations and if a larger commission comes up, 'They also phone us.
It has paid small fines, generally in the hundreds of dollars, for several.
"It pays a small installment on a boundless debt".
Miliband referred to comments by Google chairman Eric Schmidt, who has previously said that Google's tax arrangements – by which "sales" are begun in the UK but "completed" in Ireland, where it pays a small corporation tax rate – are "just capitalism".
And how do you defend a law that gives the federal government unprecedented control over "failing" schools -- that tells local school boards when they must fire their principals and teachers -- even though it pays a small fraction (7percentt) of public education costs?
When a museum, insurer or individual comes to Art Loss Register with a report of a theft, he, she or it pays a small registration fee and in some cases signs a contract agreeing to pay 20% of the value of the art the Register helps recover.
The site charges college and graduate school hopefuls a moderate fee to view application tips and essays by students recently accepted at universities across the U.S, and it pays a small sum to those who upload documents for people to examine.
US consumer giant Heinz, owned by billionaire US investor Warren Buffett and private equity firm 3G Capital, has doubled the length of time it takes to pay small British suppliers, it emerged this week.
