Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with political influence apply pressure to kill an investigation. When a case finally comes to trial, the defendant's lawyer may ask for a stay because he has been sick; when it next comes up, he resigns from the case, supposedly because his client will not pay his fee; that means another delay for a "new" attorney to familiarize himself with the case; soon comes the judge's summer vacation. The whole system, says Schrag, operates to "let swindlers continue to swindle...
...Quality of education' might should like a vague term, but in any light, $3000 seems an enormous fee to pay for an undergraduate education consisting of a distant senior faculty concerned with its own research, combined with large lecture courses and a few over-worked teaching fellows whose salary returns to the University as tuition. It is in the interests of all students at this University to demand that such a situation not arise. It is in our interest to question the priorities that the administration has set, to demand an accounting of the budget and a large degree...
...every black elected official, plus community workers chosen in proportion to the black population of each state. Many states did not come up with a full slate; seven states were not represented at all. Some delegates could not afford to travel to Gary, or to pay the $25 registration fee...
...enroll her 3½-year-old daughter. Aware that the state-supported center gave priority to children of single, low-income mothers, she was confident that her daughter would be accepted. What she did not know, however, was that her salary ($600 a month) put her in a top-fee bracket: placing her youngster in the center would cost her $200 a month, far more than she could afford. "She came in here so strong," the center's director recalled. "Then, as we talked about her situation, she began to crumble. She didn't stand a chance...
...month from already tight family budgets in Belford. Besides taxes, residents were recently hit with special expenses when the town finally joined an areawide sewer authority. Every homeowner was obliged to pay $500 to hook into the sewer system, and is now charged a quarterly fee...