Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expert in gymnastics, but his real world was all make-believe. Like Johnny Carson, a transplanted Nebraskan, young Cavett took up magic. He gave shows in his basement, and by the time he was a teenager, he was pulling rubber chickens out of his hat for pleasure and a fee before P.T.A. groups. He had his own weekly radio drama show on the local station while he was still in high school. He was living his show business fantasies in the highest style available to a boy, but that was not enough. He was a movie addict, and he haunted...
...track betting may soon be everywhere. Already several states-Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut-have sent delegations to study how New York plays the ponies. Howie the Horse is more than willing to pass on his expertise-for a fee, of course. Indeed, the purely commercial aspect of O.T.B. has been strongly stressed. "The racing industry," says Samuels, "has marketing myopia and is completely insensitive to the fact that they have not been getting their share of the recreation dollar." Hearing that kind of talk, many horse-racing fans wonder whether O.T.B. will affect the sporting aspect of racing...
Unwilling to trust gadgetry alone, more and more people are signing up with a growing number of home-protection services. The leader in the field is Westinghouse Electric, which sells its services in 29 cities. For a fee of between $700 and $2,000, plus $50 to $200 annually for maintenance, clients get an alarm system that is linked electronically to a Westinghouse monitoring station. If the alarm rings, the security officer at the station calls the police...
...university has claimed ownership of the paper ever since it took over handling of ASUC funds after the 1954 referendum. At that time, all students were required to pay a small membership fee of seven dollars per quarter and the chancellor's office took over the collecting of the fee...
...believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois for 17% of the Strasbourg crematorium's fee-the "value added" to the deceased. On their way home with the ashes, the mourners get hit again, this time by Luxembourg officials who demand payment of another 8% tax for "work entrusted to a foreign company, with reimportation of the finished product...