111.   At best, the bankruptcy filing indicates payment to the schools will be delayed, Silberman said.

112.   At a time when the Kremlin is freezing payments to pensioners, Chernomyrdin seems to have shot himself in the foot, too.

113.   Ashcroft said his first instruction to Feinberg was to provide partial advance payments to victims and their families to help them meet immediate financial needs.

114.   At the same time, he said it was important for Congress to increase payments to the IMF.

115.   At the same time, it severely limits payments to doctors and hospitals paid under the traditional fee-for-service system.

116.   At least one other provincial investment firm, Guangzhou International Trust and Investment Corp., has failed to make loan payments to a French bank, bankers say.

117.   At the same time, the legislation would freeze Medicare payments to HMOs in parts of the country with a heavy concentration of teaching hospitals.

118.   At present, the payout to shareholders is tied to bonus payments to policyholders.

119.   Atlanta-based National Data will make an undisclosed cash payment to MasterCard for a majority stake in the venture, to be called Global Payments Systems.

120.   Automatically cuts Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories and home health care agencies if necessary to keep Medicare outlays within limits specified by Congress.