Instead of opening wallets in shops and being confronted with a choice of whether to pay by cash or plastic card, they will wave a phone at the checkout.
Lord Black and the other executives have agreed to pay back the cash by June 2004, Hollinger added.
Whitehead says she was unable to vote for prom king and queen without the badge and is segregated in the lunch line presumably because she has to go to a different register to pay in cash rather than by flashing her Beast mark.
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Additional transactions are expected to come from the recently released device PayPal Here, which enables merchants to let shoppers pay by card instead of cash.
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The expected announcement is the latest in a year-long string of efforts by government officials to put strings on executive pay by companies that have received bailout cash.
Once they were studiously ignored, but now that they are known to be both well-off and prepared to pay whatever it takes to spot a rare bird they are wooed by cash-strapped ranchers and dilapidated Gulf coast towns.
Slow-turning goods become the equivalent of cash to pay for something that in a better economy would have been covered by the cash flow and profits from customer sales.
If investors are willing to reward companies that pay dividends by buying their shares, then companies with high relative cash holdings in addition to absolute cash levels would do well to listen.
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Lehman realized a benefit by using the cash received to pay down other liabilities for a temporary improvement in the leverage ratio.
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But avant-garde didn't pay, and the Barrons decided to cash in by turning to Hollywood.
In return, the city promised to reduce property tax rates by 15 percent and pay cash for capital improvement projects from that point forward.
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They decided that the lifestyle they had built was no longer sustainable and decided to make structural changes, by selling their home and renting, using the equity to pay off debts, establish a cash emergency fund and contributed to college savings for their children, which was of major importance.
In the case of Realty Income, the cash flow to pay monthly dividends is supported by the lease revenue from the 3, 528 properties that we own, located in 49 states, leased to over 200 different companies in 49 different industries.
Mr Pynzynek estimates that, by the spring, Ukraine will run out of cash to pay pensions and salaries.
But Shader believes utility companies will quickly sign on, because with consumers able to pay with cash at 7-11 stores, utilities will save money by not having to operate their own costly locations for customers to make cash payments.
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Silicon Valley has led the options stampede, but has applied it more widely than other firms, as a way to pay the staff without spending much cash: 80% of options granted by high-tech companies went to employees below the top five executives.
Under the deal, Starbucks will use Square's service that lets customers who download the "Pay with Square" smartphone app and who enter their credit card information into it to pay simply by using their phone or by stating their name to employees at the cash register.
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After finding out that a contractor was stymied by a cash flow problem, Sreedharan freed up Delhi Metro funds to pay for materials so work could continue.
If the cardiologist I use gives them an 85% discount to just pay cash up front, then the patient actually spends less out of pocket by not using their insurance.
Applying the same logic to the U.S. government, debt will continue to grow as long as the government can raise more cash by issuing debt than it costs to repay maturing debt and pay interest costs.
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Workers Wayne Tomlinson, Alice Ballesteros and Gary Muckelroy brought the suit in 2004, arguing that by switching its defined benefit pension plan from a final average pay formula to a cash balance formula, El Paso set payments for older, longer-service employees at significantly lower levels.
But by then we had six full candy bags to pay for so I glanced over at the cash register and saw that the line was snaking around the store.
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Perhaps an HP more focused on returning cash to shareholders would come to grips with the fact that it is a business in decline and should generate the cash it can, pay that out, and stop trying to chase growth opportunities by buying them.
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Instead of hailing or calling a cab, waiting for it to arrive and making sure you have enough cash in your wallet to pay the fare, Uber carved out a unique niche by greatly simplifying the entire experience.
In response to the criticism from SIGTARP, a Treasury spokesman notes that the Top 25 pay for the seven banks that originally received TARP loans by more than 50% (including a more than 90% cut to cash pay), and that the CEOs of AIG, GM and Ally (the former GMAC) have not received pay increases during their tenure.
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The employee can pay cash up front to exercise them, or they can be exercised in a cashless transaction or by using a stock swap.
By hungry I mean two things: First, they have very little, if any cash to pay people who work there.
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By the time 350 accountants had sorted out the numbers, Rite Aid had precious little cash to pay off all the debt coming due.
By then Richardson had dropped out of the primary race, but his campaign committee was raising cash to pay off debts.
Many viewed this as both a cynical and shrewd move by Huffington given that AOL would have surely preferred to pay using its shares rather than a large percentage of its cash.
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