Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...befouled the atmosphere and lulled Americans into a dangerous sloth. But today, the new conservation and the high incidence of circulatory and cardiac diseases have caused the natural life to be reappraised. The bicycle no longer seems juvenile; indeed, it offers the country transportation, romance and exercise at a fee that advertisers like to summarize as "pennies...
...sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling $10,000, one politician replied "John would think of that as a legal fee to which he was entitled. He wouldn't think of it as a bribe." The white knights of the Special Prosecutor's Office had toppled one Nixon crony after another, and Connally looked like merely another transgressor of the public trust, caught red-handed...
...accepted for the race, entrants must pay a $50 entry fee for insurance, and $200 to charity. Everybody pays for transport and gas. Plus the traffic fines, which are not inconsiderable. The Cadillac boys had about a half a dozen apprehensions, which cost them dear time in their race with the Ferrari. And one entrant was stopped at gunpoint for looking suspicious in Arizona...
Opera (their top fee), $4,000 at the Met (also the top), $10,000 or so for concerts and other opera dates. Her income from these appearances and recordings is about $400,000 a year. That makes her one of the two or three highest-paid sopranos in classical music - only one indication of the way she has come to dominate her field. Says Tito Capobianco, the artistic director-elect of the San Diego Opera: "She is Beverly Sills with or without...
Hughes was also pleased-so pleased that he took the project on for very little fee profit. For the design of the entire recovery system, Hughes revived his old relationship with Lockheed Co. The firm, which has in recent years acquired expertise in deep-sea rescue vessels, developed an innovative design. The main ship-a hefty 36,000-tonner that would be 618 ft. in length and 115.5 ft. in beam-would serve as a floating, highly stable platform. Amidships would stand a high derrick that would pass piping directly through a well, or "moon pool," in the ship...