Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal brothel between Las Vegas and Reno, posts signs over each of its beds advertising its willingness to take Diners Club, Master Charge or BankAmericard. Some of New York's "massage parlors" accept credit cards too -discreetly billing customers in the name of nearby restaurants that for a fee let the parlors use their card imprinters and sales-draft forms...
About a third of the holders of bank credit cards pay their bills within 25 days and thus escape the interest charges equal to 18% a year that banks levy on cardholders who pay their accounts more slowly. Last May, however, Manhattan's Citibank began imposing a fee of 500 a month on the prompt payers. Bank officials protested that they were losing money handling the quickly settled accounts. Be that as it may, the charge marks a vaguely Orwellian first: customers now have to pay for the privilege of not using extended credit...
...largest rugby tournament in the world was held last weekend at the Mardi Gras, and 16 members of the Harvard rugby team rented and borrowed cars for the 30-hour drive to New Orleans only to discover there had been a mix-up in the payment of their entry fee...
Members of the current senior class paid $5025 when they entered Harvard in the fall of 1973. Next year's price rise is only slightly less than the $500 boost which brought this year's fee...
...wall in Chicago's International Amphitheater and for the 13th time in his frangible career broke some bones: the right forearm and the left collarbone (his 55th and 56th breaks). After putting out a blizzard of P.T. Barnum-like press releases, all CBS got for its $500,000 fee was some taped footage of the crash, which it duly showed several times along with some live daredevil stunts. Meanwhile, twelve sharks shipped up from Florida for the show found themselves not only unemployed in the very cold Midwest but with their reputation as man-eaters impugned. Sniffed one expert...