In the case of airport security, the airlines did not reap profits from paying private contractors to screen luggage.

The Pentagon has also somewhat increased the pace at which it pays contractors, after having slowed the pace in the last decade.

A draw is the method by which funds are taken from the construction budget to pay material suppliers and contractors.

The state twice paid contractors to repaint the bridge who then failed to do so.

The banking system had collapsed and there was no easy way to pay Iraqi workers and contractors, who were already doing much of the actual labor.

What dealers rent is an essentially empty booth: they have to pay contractors chosen by the show producers for virtually all additional work.

And by assuming control of operations like maintenance and food services, the Garden has been able to save on what it once paid outside contractors.

The letter said the hospital officials had been unable to track the project's costs and painfully slow to pay contractors or to approve contracts.

It also said the association wrote checks to "cash," failed to pay contractors and paid $5,700 to the son of the group's president, Joyce Stewart.

These elements do not mean that the organization cannot pay employees or contractors for work or services they render to the organization.