Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arced his cycle over 13 Mack trucks and landed safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel...
...provide the hardware-studio facilities for live programming or video-camera and editing equipment for taped shows-and the cable time. Some cable companies also provide technical assistance, but few can afford to hire full-time public-access aides. The FCC lets the cable company charge a small equipment fee for programs that run more than the minimum five minutes allowed all applicants, but most stations schedule longer shows at no charge. If openings allow, in fact, even regular weekly shows may be arranged for. Usually the user's only expense is for video tape (about $10 per half...
Californians by the thousands are registering for membership ($15 per person, $25 per couple) in burial-at-sea clubs that for an additional fee provide pickup, cremation and the scattering of ashes at sea. Such clubs as the Telophase Society (the largest, with 9,000 members) and the Neptune Society (7,000) each conduct an average of 50 seafaring funerals every month...
...their $10 yearly fee, members of Tippers International receive a generous helping of cards and toothpicks, a pocket guide to tipping and a batch of envelopes addressed to T.I.'s Milwaukee headquarters. Members' evaluations of restaurants, hotels and motels are mailed in and passed on to the T.I. ranks in a monthly newsletter...
...case of new weapons whose cost is hard to estimate; manufacturers find that they cannot deliver for the agreed price and ask for more money. Rule contends that the Navy should have signed a "milestone" contract, under which the manufacturer is paid legitimate costs plus a set fee. Democratic Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a former Defense Department economic analyst, agrees and is demanding a full congressional investigation...