1.   That means hiring a private contractor to plow and making sure the contractor is paid.

2.   The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit.

3.   If materials are procured too early, the supplier may have to be paid before a contractor is paid by the client which can lead to cash flow costs.

4.   A main indicator of the health of the service industry is how much oil companies are willing to pay drilling contractors to rent their rigs.

5.   City officials also grew increasingly concerned Thursday about scam artists, and warned residents not to pay contractors until work is completed.

6.   Cline said the lack of payments had made it difficult for Dabhol to pay contractors, including Bechtel, General Electric and Enron Engineering.

7.   Construction already under way was authorized last fiscal year, so contractors are being paid.

8.   For example, she said, a bank in Chicago has routinely withdrawn more money from the Federal Reserve system than it needs to pay Medicare contractors.

9.   HEAP pays the contractors directly.

10.   In the case of airport security, the airlines did not reap profits from paying private contractors to screen luggage.