Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago freshmen parents received an HSA letter offering, for a not-so-slight fee, to surprise their offspring with boxes of goodies to help relieve the pressures of exam period. The letter, a classic of its genre, evoked Dickensian images of gaunt orphans on scholarships assembling goodies all night in dank cellars, while completing math problem sets with their toes. The goodies, of course, were actually preassembled by one of the many fly-by-night outfits which, with the help of inside units such as HSA, annually rip off students and their naive parents for millions of dollars...
...place is seeing the "shyster in the bacroom of illusion, diluting his witches brew with tapwater, while all his gnomes worked frantically to design gaudier and gaudier designs for the mess." Or one an simply realize that all this does cost to great deal, 128 million roughly, pay the fee, and allow images and emotions lying dormant since childhood to make their presence felt once again...
...wishes his sperm destroyed: that can be done immediately, the Depositor's Handbook guarantees. The same swift fate awaits the ejaculate of a man who fails to keep up his support payments; in Manhattan those payments amount to $18 a year, after the initial deposit fee...
Those classified by the commission as "noninstitutional providers"-doctors, dentists, osteopaths, laboratories, blood banks and even birth control clinics-will be limited to fee increases of 2.5% a year. Hospitals may not raise their aggregate charges by more than 6%. They are being given more leeway because they are far more vulnerable to the pressure of operating costs than doctors are. Even hikes below the ceilings will have to be justified by increased costs in doing business...
Exemptions Unlikely. The rules demand that price lists covering all basic services be drawn up and made available to patients on request. The Internal Revenue Service, which polices Phase II, must be given the fee tables on request and must be informed of increases above 2.5% by hospitals. All rises above the commission figures must have prior approval of the IRS. Few exemptions are likely to be granted...