21.   He has raised pension payments, hailed the notion of a strong state and waged war.

22.   He pledged to scale down the size of the Spanish government while guaranteeing pension payments and universal health care and maintaining a dialogue with unions to avoid labor strife.

23.   Helen Quirini and Hank Antonelli from Schenectady, N.Y., spoke in favor of a shareholder proposal that raised the issue of pension payments.

24.   His promises of tax cuts and increased pension payments could balloon the budget deficit, which could push Italy outside the economic parameters for the European single currency.

25.   In March, Soros lent the Russian government several hundred million dollars to help it meet overdue pension payments.

26.   It also won legislative approval to limit pension payments, suspend legal claims by pensioners against the government and loosen restrictive employment laws.

27.   It sought pension payments from Ferbar Corp. of California, a company that ran laundries in the San Francisco area.

28.   Its earnings should also contain one-time items including depreciation of assets and pension payments to the government.

29.   Labor leaders and the government are also at odds over how to calculate pension payments for employees.

30.   LEGISLATION SIGNED Increases pension payments to most retired state and local government workers.