11.   Lastly, welfare payments make lone motherhood financially tolerable, and in some countries actually favor single mothers over two-parent households.

12.   Only alimony payments made pursuant to a court decree count.

13.   Such payments can make some commodities too cheap, leading to profligacy and waste, experts say.

14.   Such payments can make some commodities too cheap, leading to profligacy, experts say.

15.   The money goes to the lender, and the premiums, unlike the interest payments made on a mortgage, are not deductible from income taxes.

16.   The number of malpractice payments made is not a good way to indicate competence or incompetence.

17.   Under current law, some of these payments are used to repay state and federal governments for welfare payments made to the same mothers.

18.   Payments made more than three years ago fall outside a statute of limitations for prosecution, according to Japanese press reports.

19.   No question about it, Internet banking will be part of our lives in the third millennium, with transfer payments made via the Internet.

20.   The Red Wings previously had said they will match any offer, although the huge early payments could make them reconsider.