Word: fee
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John Wicklein, dean of the School of Public Communication, said yesterday he thought it "morally wrong" for the student government to pay Ziegler to speak. Ziegler had requested a lecture fee of $2500 and expenses...
Boston's Sanson Institute of Heraldry puts coats of arms on everything from blazer patches ($14.95) to watches ($49.95). The American Heraldry Foundation in Clearwater, Minn., has a different approach. For a $39.95 fee, customers can suggest the motif of their shields. The Beihoffers, a farming family from Buffalo Lake, Minn., for example, picked a horse and plowshare and a spool of thread (sewing is Opal Beihoffer's hobby) for their coat of arms; because marriage and the home are important to the family, they also chose a pair of intertwined rings and a front door...
...unasked, she sent in to The New Yorker a 1,500-word piece on New York's new International Center of Photography? It was published in the Jan. 13 issue of the magazine-unsigned, like all "Talk of the Town" contributions. Editor William Shawn did not divulge her fee, saying only that she would be paid at "regular rates, which run into the hundreds rather than the thousands." The same week Jackie reaped $3,000 from the sale at a Manhattan auction house of some old furniture, including President Kennedy's chair from Choate School and John...
...month's oil earnings. The Saudi takeover will move Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates to nationalize the last of the Western oil operations in those areas, probably this year. The companies will become mere agents, selling technical and marketing services to the governments for a fee...
...proposal for the new Congress: institute a national users' fee system called Licenses on Surpluses and Excesses (LOSE). An annual LOSE fee of $5 each could be levied on all pets (except perhaps goldfish). All pet food could be subject to a LOSE sales fee of 5%. Annual LOSE fees could also be considered on: art holdings, books, magazines, newspapers, records, candy, greeting cards, caskets, cosmetics, jewelry, liquor, tobacco, air conditioners, and many other goods, services and diversions...