31.   Meanwhile, other bidders have delayed their payments and, in two cases, have gone bankrupt.

32.   Now, many of these companies are asking customers to pay more quickly and they are delaying payments to their suppliers while trying to raise cash.

33.   Others, like Neuborne, say they worry that creating bureaucracies might delay payments to survivors in their last years.

34.   Regional banks, which now reveal only loans extended to companies now bankrupt, will disclose all loans on which interest payments have been delayed.

35.   Several hospitals have been struggling to balance their books by delaying payments and by readying plans to close wards and lay off workers.

36.   Some manufacturers say Kmart has delayed payments without any notice.

37.   Some insurance carriers have delayed payments, ordered repeated tests or disputed whether the asbestos contamination was caused by the temblor, Kehrer said.

38.   Sometimes lenders will allow students to delay payment until they are financially stable.

39.   That agreement -- in which bondholders agreed to let BGLS delay interest payments -- was first reached in August.

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