Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boost costs. Says New Jersey Builder Philip Azzolina: "Two or three years ago, you took the architect's blueprint for a house to the local authority, and while you waited it was approved or rejected. If it was approved, it was stamped on the spot; you then paid the fee and got the building permit. Now you submit the plan, and in some towns it takes a month to get it approved and permission to build. Before a blueprint is passed, it has to be approved by engineers, the building inspector, the zoning officer, and in some towns...
...avoid exorbitant fees, Denholtz suggests, try a little new-fashioned comparison shopping. According to the American Dental Association's 1975 fee survey, national U.S. averages are $10 for a silver filling on one tooth surface, $13 for a simple extraction, $14 for cleaning, $92 for root-canal therapy and $251 for full upper dentures. For the financially strapped patient, Denholtz recommends Government clinics and dental schools -often inconvenient, sometimes low on quality, but easy on the wallet. At all costs, do not fall prey to what Denholtz calls cut-rate "assembly line" dental sweatshops, where one man said...
Teamsters and embezzlers The report found nothing to criticize in the fact that in March 1976 Lance's Atlanta bank landed the right to manage $17.5 million in Teamster pension funds for an undisclosed fee. It noted that, while Lance had helped to initiate the agreement with the Teamsters, he had not taken part in the detailed negotiations. Nor did the report fault Lance specifically for the Atlanta bank's willingness to lend one of the Calhoun bank's officers, Billy L. Campbell, as much as $250,000 only weeks before his arrest for embezzling nearly...
...Contemporary Fiction (Joseph Wambaugh, Irving Stone), History and War (Alan Moorehead, Hanson Baldwin), Fiction (Louis Auchincloss, F. Scott Fitzgerald) and Travel and Adventure (James Ramsey Ullman, Joshua Slocum). Current best renter of the more than 80 available titles: Walden. B.O.T. pays authors or their estates 10% of its rental fee and calls its service, not immodestly, "the thinking...
...egos of writers, Cerf discovered, were as big as his own. George Bernard Shaw refused to let him put St. Joan into an anthology until he was promised a fee twice as large as O'Neill's-whatever that was. "Isn't that pretty babyish?" Cerf shot back. "All right, it's babyish," Shaw agreed, not at all put out by his effrontery. "Do you want it or don't you? Twice as much." Cerf paid...