21.   Loans made to governments are also often used to pay private contractors who do the actual work on the projects.

22.   Other contractors have been paid, he said.

23.   The national government was forced to intervene Thursday to pay maintenance contractors who stopped work on the pumping system.

24.   Under the current system, the city pays contractors who build housing and then sells homes through official realtors without financing.

25.   Work on the module had stopped because the Russian government has failed to pay contractors who are building the hardware.

26.   They said the questions included how contractors would be paid as well as technical issues regarding the site for the reactors.