It can pay contributors only when it receives a grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines, and only a token payment (about $100) even.
Instead, the payee receives a single-use "token" allowing them to debit the payment only once.
"Unfortunately, Bear Stearns' shareholders are at the short end of the stick and they only got this token payment," David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights in New York, told Bloomberg News.
The deal with Primark increases the pressure on those brands which have not contributed to the fund, or have only made a token payment, to pay up.
"In 1993, there were concerns about this being a commercial transaction even though there was only a small token payment being made for these thymus glands and supply of thymus glands then stopped," he added.
Because membership in a token payment based platform no longer requires a bank account, but instead only a valuable skill, anyone who can offer their skills to the community without this barrier to entry.
Handling an exact-change or token payment costs the parkway 2.5 cents, but an E-ZPass transaction costs 4.3 cents.
He said he encountered worries about both Mr. Aramony's crime and a 1986 scandal involving secret loans to Los Angeles United Way executives in which two who paid the money back were forced out, but three others who made only token payments were promoted.
One day someone who owed $300 settled the debt with a token payment and 350 hubcaps.
Instead, Garnett will be offering his creditors a token payment of £1 a month.
Except for a token payment of about 4 cents on the dollar approved by the court earlier this summer, those payments had been held up by the dispute.
