11.   Assume that we would resume the current payments into our retirement accounts once the mortgage was paid off.

12.   Because it is not expected to do so this year when taking interest payments into account, that leaves it with current working capital to sustain the business.

13.   Bond owners, who have bought a stream of fixed payments into the future, fear that inflation will erode the value of those payments.

14.   A stronger dollar allays concern international investors will abandon U.S. securities to limit losses when they convert interest and principal payments into other currencies.

15.   Accompanying January payments were notices pitching the advantages of direct deposit, the automatic transfer of payments into bank accounts.

16.   Also, under the new welfare law, states can convert welfare payments into job subsidies for private employers.

17.   Cancer costs have turned the mundane money matter of a car payment into a monthly major obstacle.

18.   Common schemes generally involve bribing union officials so that a company can hire cheaper nonunion workers and forgo expensive payments into pension, benefit and health and welfare funds.

19.   Clinton shifted the public and the Congress away from the decades-long practice of folding Social Security payments into the general federal budget.

20.   Diverting FICA payments into private portfolios will not only complicate paying for current recipients but also lead to even more government borrowing, worsening the original problem.