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There was no precedent for any company making such payments.
He & other former Lockheed officials have maintained that the company, one of more than 300 American corporations that have confessed to making such payments in foreign countries, was serving as a "scapegoat".
Although Washington will continue to strongly discourage families and companies from making such payments or other concessions, officials said the new policy acknowledged that some companies and families might feel that they have no choice.
After their labor unions protested that other airlines were making such payments -- and threatened to lobby Congress to deny bailout funds to any airline that failed to -- American and Northwest changed course.
After telling MPs that the UK would not pay ransoms to secure the release of hostages in the hands of Islamic State militants, the prime minister, David Cameron, said Britain and the US would step up attempts to persuade other governments to cease making such payments.
When Lloyds publishes its results, it is expected to announce that it will resume dividend payouts to shareholders for the first time since the crisis, when it was blocked from making such payments under the terms of its bailout and also lacked the financial muscle to do so.
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The odds of making an informal payment is between 7 to 8 times higher if the patient lives in one of the semi-urban district, adjusting for the effect of the economic status of patients; and the odds of making such payment is at least twice higher for the economically better-offs, adjusting for the effect of the district of residence.
Nonetheless, technology makes such payments particularly painless.
Britain and Australia already make such payments to harried taxpayers.
Iraqi police are not known to make such payments, and include almost no women.
Borrowers can lose their homes if they fail to make such payments.
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