Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students, in expressing skepticism about the need for such an organization, often ask, "What's the point?" The point is $500 fee increases year after year. The point is the Core Curriculum. The point is a housing plan formulated without any substantial student participation. The point is having to pay for 21 meals a week even if you only eat 10. The point is that all these decisions, and scores of others, are made with institutional bureaucratic inputs from every group but the one justifying the very existence of the school--the students...
...which the administration will steadfastly ignore student wishes. In such cases, students will have to decide whether to acquiesce, or whether they feel strongly enough to pursue the issue further. But in many cases, the mere expression of student opinion will make an impact on decisions. If one $500 fee increase is changed to a $400 increase, then the association's existence will be justified...
Brokering: also known as "farming out." A lawyer gives a case to another lawyer for a "forwarding fee." An efficient if often unethical way to make money. See "ten-point...
...Talese was an obscure metropolitan reporter for the New York Times in the late 1950s when he sold his first freelance magazine article, a 3,000-word profile of Boxer José Torres, to a men's adventure magazine called Argosy. His fee: $500. Talese went on to bigger things (a total of $1 million from The Kingdom and the Power and Honor Thy Father, a $600,000 advance for his major book on sex, due in 1981), but Argosy did not. It's stated top payment for an article, some 20 years later, was still...
...some city and regional magazines ($1,000 at New West, $1,100 at Texas Monthly). But other magazines have not raised rates at all: Washington Monthly has been paying writers the same 100 a word for the past eight years; previously, it paid 130. Holiday's average fee was $1,200, the same as a decade ago, when that magazine was absorbed by Travel last fall; Travel/ Holiday now pays...