If you ask your trade union's local office or head office for a form to contract out of political fund payments, they must supply it.

A bond with sinking fund payments and due in 2021 has an average life of four years.

Sinking fund payments will begin in 1998, retiring half the issue by maturity.

Matching fund payments usually arise in situations of charity or public good.

Sinking fund payments begin Oct. 1, 1991, giving them an average life of 10.5 years.

Sinking fund payments beginning in 1999 will retire 5 percent of the issue annually.

Traditionally, the growth in general fund payments has been used to measure the increase in state spending.

Sinking fund payments begin June 1, 2006, thus giving the issue a 24.55-year average life.

On the other hand, it may be because the amount of structural fund payments has increased appreciably in the last few years.

To now try to keep back structural fund payments would directly affect those countries with the greatest problems in terms of jobs and growth.