Sentence examples for speeding payments from inspiring English sources

Pennsylvania is speeding payments of $3.6 million to its debt-laden capital, Harrisburg, to prevent the city from defaulting on a general obligation bond, Gov. Edward G. Rendell said on Sunday.

The bill would also make dozens of other changes in Medicare, reducing co-payments for mental health services, increasing assistance to low-income beneficiaries, speeding payments to pharmacists and creating new incentives for the electronic transmission of prescriptions from doctors to drugstores.

"We give our customers accounts in the different clearing systems directly," he says, speeding payments between the euro and sterling areas.

It will also work to speed payments and reduce red tape.

BP Agrees to Speed Payments The oil company responsible for the spill said it would speed payments to businesses crippled by the oil spill, saying it would no longer wait for previous monthly losses to be tallied before making payments.

In several states, lawmakers are seeking to speed payments by shortening the period before interest kicks in.

WASHINGTON — Representative Shelley Berkley, Democrat of Nevada, violated House ethics rules when her office repeatedly intervened with federal officials to try to speed payments to her husband's medical practice, the House Ethics Committee has found.

In addition, Avendra returned to Marriott-managed hotels $12.6 million in rebates, including $1.6 million generated through Marriott's P-card credit card program, which speeds payment flow and rebates between vendors and Marriott.

A spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, Omar Samad, said the interim government was encouraged that Secretary Powell promised to help speed payment of $20 million in start-up funds pledged by foreign donors.

Although America will not submit its military plans to the UN Security Council for approval, it has moved quickly to speed payment of its long-standing financial arrears to the organisation, giving its new ambassador, John Negroponte, a cleaner diplomatic slate for gathering support in the fight against terrorism.

The criticism came a day after a federal judge in New Orleans began to mull lifting the moratorium, which the Obama administration imposed after the disaster began, and the administrator of a $20 billion fund to compensate oil spill victims pledged to speed payment of claims.