21.   A good thing, since lending limits to state enterprises has left that sector without enough money to pay workers, let alone buy cars or new machinery.

22.   ACOG already is resigned to paying workers to handle some jobs once designated for volunteers.

23.   After all, workers still get paid and the airline still gets revenue from passengers.

24.   Businesses usually pay fees plus agreed-upon wages to the temporary agency, which pays the workers.

25.   But do keep change in your pocket and be prepared to pay the workers who, hopefully, keep it a little clean.

26.   But getting economists and policy makers to analyze why oil refineries pay workers with sausages, instead of analyzing exchange rates and balanced budgets, is tough.

27.   But Secretary of State Ralph Munro questioned whether the courts will allow the denturist initiative on the ballot because some workers were paid to collect signatures.

28.   But some conceded it was likely to result in the awkward outcome of essentially paying many workers to do nothing.

29.   But the governor was defiant, saying he would appeal the ruling and that he might not pay the workers anyway.

30.   Companies and the government have begun to pay workers the months and even years of back wages they are owed.