Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society's historians insist that Moses himself showed the first dowsing skills when he rapped on that rock in the desert and got water. In 19th century America, "water witches" grew as plentiful as traveling medicine men, ready, for a fee, to point out a potential water hole. As handy as dowsers seem to have been for many a parched landholder, the practice eventually fell victim to the new scientific age. Science abhors a mystery, especially one with a maddeningly practical application. Modern hydrologists and the U.S. Geological Survey long ago rejected talk of water "veins" as nonsense...
...small planes are inevitably involved in most of the accidents. Last year U.S. commercial airlines suffered only five fatal accidents, compared with 702 in general aviation. The difference can be explained partly by the airlines better pilot training, partly by better equipment. For an average fee of $1,500, any fit 17-year-old can sign up for 16 hours of classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time...
...city council also considered a possible ordinance that would require stricter licensing policies for pinball machines, and an annual license fee of $250 for pinball machines operating in Cambridge establishments...
Vesco's emissaries tenaciously tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...
...lure of the card business, and the reason that the newcomers are prepared to sell checks without a fee, lies in the "float"-all that money from checks that have been bought but not yet cashed. The check issuer has free use of the funds. Thus American Express's pitchman, Karl Maiden, urges returning vacationers to keep their unspent checks in their pockets as "emergency money"-and his campaign is working nicely. Although no firm returns are in yet on the Maiden campaign, American Express studies indicate that people already keep approximately $1 billion in cash stashed away...