81.   Among them are payments to businesses in the affected area.

82.   An influential federal advisory commission recommended last month that the government increase Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals, home care agencies and health maintenance organizations.

83.   And Gore said the bill requiring payments to private property owners for the impact of regulations could cost the government billions.

84.   And he pointed to the ongoing probe by a special prosecutor looking at his payments to his former mistress.

85.   And he said that his association was not focused on closing the gap on Medicare payments to teaching hospitals.

86.   And it tried to alter an existing program in which customers take their monthly gas payments to grocery stores or other retailers.

87.   And he says he has no intention of backing down in the standoff over payments to the United Nations, an issue sure to return next year.

88.   And Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri, the House minority leader, has been dead set against any effort to tie premium payments to income.

89.   And the city has fallen behind so often on its payments to child care centers that even those with openings often turn away mothers on welfare.

90.   And the cash-strapped company had begun to skip severance payments to recently laid-off employees.