41.   Such a move could delay any payment for years and lump the BFA investors in a pool with other Andersen creditors, including thousands of Enron stockholders.

42.   That payment is later delayed.

43.   That will force the companies to delay payments and offer less good administrative service to providers with minimal impact on beneficiaries.

44.   That equals the level of its non-performing loans, or those on which interest payments have been delayed by three months or more, he said.

45.   The central bank also said it will change the definition of past-due loans to those which have payments delayed by three months, half the current period.

46.   The company has asked to delay note payments to Fuji until next year, he said.

47.   The documents say state regulators found that some insurance companies had a tendency to lowball policyholder claims and delay payments.

48.   The documents say state regulators found that some insurance companies had tendencies to lowball policyholder claims and delay payments.

49.   The hospital has just one week of cash on hand, he said, and is deliberately delaying payments to its vendors.

50.   The ministry may label loans as bad when interest payments are delayed for more than three months -- the same as the current U.S. standard.