1.   Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.

2.   However, an advance payment, called ACT, is due whenever a company pays dividends to its shareholders.

3.   It recommends that developing countries seek advance payments and relatively small royalties rather than holding out for higher royalties that may never materialise.

4.   And the full House then outlawed any future advance payments for book deals, limiting financial rewards only to royalties.

5.   Artists typically sign contracts to receive advance payments from their music company based on expected sales volumes.

6.   Ashcroft said his first instruction to Feinberg was to provide partial advance payments to victims and their families to help them meet immediate financial needs.

7.   Be particularly wary, she said, of companies that require advance payment for services.

8.   Clinton said there are unresolved legal questions, including whether the parties can set up an advance payment for punitive damages.

9.   Earlier this week, the government agreed to make the advance payments so that Peasant Party deputies voted against the motion of no confidence.

10.   EMI said it will need to make additional provisions to cover advance payments to artists, due to lower-than-expected Asian sales volumes.