past-due bill

But she could not join the program until her past-due bills were fully paid.

In other words, a creditor has knocked on the door to collect for past-due bills of injustice.

It would protect them from having to pay past-due bills and debt until the reorganization plan is accepted by a court and the creditors.

Covad says it disrupted the company's service for nonpayment of millions of dollars in past-due bills.

With California's $57.4 billion budget signed, the state entered the market with $3.3 billion of one-month notes to pay past-due bills and salaries.

Covad also cut off service to Internet Express, another service provider, for what it said was nonpayment of past-due bills.

Not with landlords asking for three months' rent up front, her boyfriend still not working and past-due bills waiting to attach themselves to her paycheck.

On a recent afternoon, Ms. Guerra looked over her past-due bills with Ms. Orihuela.

Mr. Speight had sought compensation before, but Mr. Pettit, while acknowledging he owed some past-due bills, said he held off paying.

These exceptions range from a dentist using a recorded message to confirm an appointment or an auto-repair shop saying your car is ready to a bill collector dunning for past-due bills.

He said he had inherited a house with past-due bills, had found himself owing $1,300 that he could not pay and had had his utilities cut off for several months.

The problem of overdue debts briefly improved this year, but then deteriorated so much that American companies now hold about $400 million in past-due bills, said Eugene J. Milosh, the president of the American Association of Exporters and Importers.

Calpine and PG&E Unit Reach Pact Calpine said it reached an agreement with the Pacific Gas and Electric unit of PG&E to preserve power-supply contracts between the companies and resolve past-due bills.

Backed by a gospel choir, he delivered a handful of his witty, self-deprecating rhymes, sometimes mocking his own pretensions: "I wanna act ballerific like it's all terrific/I got a couple past-due bills, I won't get specific/I got a problem with spending before I get it."

Actually, you won't find much of this kind of machine-gun improvisation in Not-Knowing , at least once past the bracing title essay, the most fully fleshed apologia Barthelme achieved, which barrels from Husserl to "Melancholy Baby" to the past-due bills on his desk in mock-peevish diatribe.

He went home, played with his calculator and projected the amount of money needed at once ($366,000 for radiology, laboratory and surgical equipment, a new doctor, better nursing services and payment of past-due bills) and later ($134,000 for a second doctor and a surplus safety net) to keep the hospital at a break-even point.