Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arthur Hailey writes holding-pattern prose. He advances one of his homunculi three-and-a-half pages toward ruin, then puts him in a holding pattern and moves some other character a totter or two toward temptation. But just before the dread jaws of fee-fi-fo-fum snap shut, there is another shift of attention, and the reader must tremble in behalf of a third wretch who has been circling perdition for two chapters, waiting for permission to land...
...Legislative Monthly Report. The publication, heretofore provided free, would cost $5 a year beginning Oct. 1, she said. Benny L. Kass, a Washington lawyer, reported her to the IRS. The case is before the Cost of Living Council, and Mrs. Knauer expects that she will have to postpone the fee until after the freeze...
...this cluster of contradictions came the 'final' solution: all stations paid AT & T a license fee for use of "telegraphic" wires. AT & T sold its stations, receiving the right to manufacture radio equipment on a limited basis, while RCA, General Electric and Westinghouse formed the NBC radio system, which operated two networks and dominated its field for years. By these actions, antitrust laws were circumvented; networks being new entities altogether, the danger of eventual broadcast monopoly was ignored...
...ANGELES, a woman telephoned Office of Emergency Preparedness Supervisor Pat Hogan and asked: "Does the freeze apply to the money a prostitute gets?" Informed that it does-because the money is a fee for services rendered-the caller complained: "That's not fair. This is a tough business-we've got to make it while...
Paid for Bugs. Wilson received a bill for $2,500 on the letterhead of Construction Consultants, Inc.; the charge was described as a "consulting fee." The bill was paid, and Wilson billed Sharp for $2,500 in "legal services." In an interview with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer, Wilson said that he had no idea that the fee was for the bugging devices. Wilson did not question the request from Novotny: "I trusted those people. As it turned out, I was a patsy." Technically, Wilson did not break the law when he paid for the bugging. Texas has no law against...