41.   Over time, he said, the lawsuits will die down and the market will accept settlement payments as a cost of doing business.

42.   Providian said it duly credited the payments as of the arrival dates.

43.   Reached by telephone, Schoenfeld described the payments as proper and well-known but declined to answer questions about their sources or total amount.

44.   She cannot qualify for payments as a foster parent unless she completes a licensing course.

45.   Several states have expanded the checkoffs to all taxpayers, so those people who are not getting refunds can send in extra money in the tax payments as donations.

46.   She said she worries most about people who have borrowed money to expand or start their herd and used future government payments as collateral.

47.   Smith Barney economist Sharp said Fed figures show no big increase in debt service payments as a percentage of disposable income.

48.   Some public health advocates have criticized the payments as too meager and the penalties for failure to reduce teenage smoking as too small.

49.   Some leading companies went ex-dividend, with shareholders losing their right to the next dividend payment as of today.

50.   That offer would later raise the eyebrows of federal antitrust investigators, who viewed the large payments as evidence of restraint of trade.