Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo's of the '30s and '40s-for the new El Morocco is a private, nonprofit club (initiation fee $500, dues $200). When somebody proposed a toast to Elmo's late founder John Perona, at least one young Ms. whispered, "Who's that...
...bill to establish a more ambitious childcare program that would provide, as Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale put it, "a full range of quality health, education, nutrition and social services" for the young. The very poor would pay nothing for the services, while the more prosperous would be charged a fee; a family with two children and an income of $6,960 a year, for example, would pay about $6 a week. The child-care centers would be run by local "prime sponsors" -cities, towns, counties or even such groups as Indian tribal councils. The price tag for the first year...
Oscar and his partners started "retailing" about a year ago. The autos they sell have serial numbers that have been altered by skillful craftsmen. Oscar has friends closely connected with certain motor vehicle departments who for a fee will issue bona fide registration forms, plates and marker tags...
...general the girls work the Blue Orchid simply because it means easy money. They get to keep one-third of the fee (and tips); an attractive girl can earn as much as $100 a day, and $30 is average. Also, the job is as impersonal as nudity can be. The models do not use their names; they merely have numbers that clients can request. Business is strictly legitimate-hands off, no dates. Former prostitutes are allowed to work at the Orchid, but if they are caught soliciting they are asked to leave. A few girls think the whole idea...
...attacks on big corporations and sometimes amount to legal blackmail; to fight the case can be more expensive than to pay off. Another objection is that the lawyers for a class are sometimes the chief beneficiaries of a suit, taking a sizable percentage of the total judgment as a fee, while individual members of the class are entitled to only a few dollars each. A major worry, voiced by Solicitor General Erwin Griswold and by Chief Justice Warren Burger, is that the increasing number of class actions will compound the problems of already overburdened courts...