Similar to pre-paid phone service, customers pay up front before they receive the service.
The reasoning was that, since flood victims expected to be bailed out by the government anyway, they might as well pay up front.
In France, patients know the prices because they have to pay up front and get reimbursed by their insurer later--a lame attempt to ensure some price consciousness.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
With Roth, you pay tax up front on retirement savings but are promised a tax holiday on withdrawals.
And the businesses do not have to pay up-front for online coupons that are offered by the likes of Groupon or LivingSocial.
You would pay more up front for the hardware, but then the cost of the individual books would be really cheap, right?
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Hanoi's skyline dotted with cranes for new office buildings and pricy new condos that Vietnam's nouveau riche often pay for up front in cash.
Only a small proportion of the population is affected by these tuition fees, and even they don't actually have to pay them up front.
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.
However demands that they should receive the same benefits as full-time students - such as not having to pay up-front fees - look set to be disappointed.
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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.
The change would allow plan holders to roll their 401(k) assets into a Roth IRA plan, which would require them to pay taxes up front on any gains in their plan.
Yes, you have to pay tax up front, but you may shrink your estate in a way that saves far more, especially if your heirs stretch out the balance over their lifetimes.
Is it better to pay more up front to build a school that will stand the test of time or is it more realistic in terms of the limited funds available to build what they can now?
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So if you hear tales that are way too good to be true, at least investigate them before you call in and pay large up-front fees.
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Analyst Keith Benjamin figures online mall CUC NetMarket's model -- where customers pay an up-front fee to receive bigger discounts on all subsequent book purchases -- might prove more profitable.
Having to pay for emission allowances up front in an auction, as you suggest, while also having to pay for these new plants would be a double blow for customers.
The acquiring firm would pay little or nothing up front, but would likely be expected to cover ongoing operating costs as the bankruptcy case proceeded.
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Customers (in this case the school district) pay no money up-front, paying only for the solar energy they use and typically seeing reductions on their utility bills as soon as the system is connected to the grid.
Instead, T-Mobile's new service plans require that customers pay for their smartphones either up front or in monthly payments over two years.
Like the jet's fuselage, you pay for them once, up front, regardless.
Rather than having to pick a single designer up front and pay regardless of the outcome, clients could review dozens of design concepts produced by dozens of designers, and then select their favorite.
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One drawback of a fixed-rate reverse mortgage is that you have to draw down the entire loan amount up front and pay interest on the entire amount across the life of the loan.
The most important thing when making any sort of deal was to enter the negotiating arena by asking the client what they were willing to pay, instead of offering discounts up front, Camp said.
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