The reason, Mr. Magazzu said, was fiscal desperation, in part because the state did not give Maurice River Township payments comparable to those it gave Camden and Bridgeton -- each $1 million -- for the two prisons it already has.
Such so-called side deals attached to the transactions required Livent or its affiliates to reacquire the assets or to make payments comparable to the amount received by Livent on the asset sales, the commission said.
A number of readers have asked why the United States doesn't have internal problems with balance of payments imbalances comparable to those afflicting the euro zone.
Wall Street executives and state regulators said that Mr. Galvin had also sought a payment from First Boston comparable to the $100 million that Merrill Lynch agreed to pay in May to settle an investigation into its Internet stock analysts by Eliot Spitzer, the attorney general of New York.
Our study does not permit to analyse non-urgent ED visit rates by socio-economic deprivation factors, but we found that children from families exempt from payment for specialist outpatient care, comparable to receiving public assistance, have higher risk of ED visits.
Especially in cities like New York, where childcare costs can be comparable to rent payments.
"It was convenient and easy," recalled Mr. Levy, even if the expense was comparable to the down payment on a vacation property.
He first compared Skype with eBay's previous biggest acquisition, of PayPal, an online payment system that is not obviously comparable to a phone service (and which, unlike Skype, eBay knew intimately before the acquisition).
The income during this phase was about half of the payment for permanent teachers and hence comparable to what I had received during my thesis.
Putting a company name to a race is not comparable to nor a substitute for levy payments, because sponsorship is a commercial decision made for tangible benefits.
And doctors, eager to avoid payment delays and restrictions when patients are using insurance, accept reduced fees comparable to those they receive from managed care companies.
