And I'd think long and hard about this: Is a flat sum better than variations?

Health maintenance organizations normally charge a flat sum, fixed in advance, for each member, regardless of how much care the person uses.

Medicare, which typically covers half of a hospital's budget, pays a flat sum that varies with the diagnosis.

A repayment agreement was reached with key clients for a flat sum per week until the amount owing was paid in full.

Suppose I came out and gave a million pseudo-dollars to the Anti-Racist League in a flat sum.

The settlement paid Montgomery a flat sum of $18,000; at the time an amount she would have expected to see earned from her works during her lifetime.

He's bequeathed Peter a flat sum, a tremendous sum, of course, but twenty-seven percent of the business is yours and your children's."

Furthermore, to families whose per-capita income is less than seventy reais per month (extreme poverty), the program gives an additional flat sum of 68 reais per month.

To compound the confusion, my mother, never one to do things simply, had made a token bequest to numerous relatives - but as a percentage of her estate, not a flat sum.

For you, Mrs. Polk, in appreciation of what is termed a lifetime of devotion and service, the Hammonds left a flat sum of twenty-five thousand dollars."

If they collect enough of these qualifying contributions, they are then paid a flat sum by the government to run their campaigns, and agree not to raise any other money from private sources.

After acquiring the film's paperback novelization rights, Bantam Books approached Isaac Asimov to write the novelization, offering him a flat sum of $5,000 with no royalties involved.

I will advise him to leave her a flat sum of fifty thousand dollars in his will and provide in the agreement that this bequest is irrevocable unless she predeceases him."

In theory, a broker shops around to find a buyer the best possible deal and receives a fee at closing as part of the settlement, usually a small percentage of the mortgage or a flat sum.

The money would be divided according to a formula that gives each of the state's 62 counties a flat sum of just under $3 million, and then adds on additional money according to the counties' population and unemployment rates.

Under the terms of the contract, negotiated by his son Arthur, Hammerstein was paid a flat sum of $1,200,000, in exchange for which he promised to stage no opera in the United States for the following ten years.

At the services and then several months later, when she came to my office and showed me that she had inherited the ownership of the book, and she wanted to sell me her interest in the book outright for a flat sum.

The agreement may give a percentage of the sale price to the dealer - he says 3 to 10 percent is typical - or, as is more often the case, it guarantees a flat sum to the seller, with the dealer keeping anything above that amount.

WestJet sold 300 tickets for as little as a dollar Canadian round trip in late June to make a point about how governments are larding tickets with fees, often flat sums that weigh most heavily on tickets for short haul or advance purchase travel.

The details - whether the levy would be a flat sum or a percentage of assets, for example - were never resolved because the Tories shot the idea down, using the emotive and puzzling term "death tax" (what is wrong with a tax you pay only when you're dead?)

Of historical and cinematic interest is "The Power and the Glory" (1933), directed by William K. Howard, with which Sturges nearly wrecked Hollywood's pecking order by selling his screenplay for a flat sum up front plus a percentage of the profits.

Among my first hundred books is a small one I did for the Atomic Energy Commission called The Genetic Effects of Radiation, It earned me only a small flat sum, and there were no royalties since the booklet was distributed by the AEC, as a public service, to anyone who asked for it.