Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suburb of Tiburon, 30-year-old Susan Greene is hardly the typical suburban housewife. A graduate of Cornell University, she has traveled extensively with her husband (a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian studies), taught school, backpacked in the California mountains and, as she freely admits, had sexual relations for a fee with two dozen different men during the past year. Despite her professional extramarital activity, Susan is not a prostitute. She is a "sex surrogate"-a paid partner for men who are being treated for sexual difficulties...
...rumbling from Washington has been growing louder for months. "These fee arrangements," said Bruce Wilson, the Justice Department's No. 2 antitrust man, "can be viewed as little more than cartels." Added Keith Clearwaters, a deputy assistant attorney general: "There are no defenses that will save them." The target of that legal wrath is the practice among many state and local bar associations of establishing "minimum fee schedules." Now the warnings and threats have ended in action: the Justice Department has charged the Oregon State Bar Association with an illegal conspiracy "to raise, fix, stabilize and maintain fees charged...
Published fee schedules became popular 30 years ago after winning the support of the American Bar Association. The purpose was to provide lawyers with a guide to what was reasonable and protect the public from outrageous prices or cut-rate fees charged by attorneys who would do a shoddy job. Variations in set minimums exist from place to place. But there is often no hope of breaking through the price floor in a particular area. Further, some bar groups have either hinted or stated that a lawyer who undercuts the suggested minimums could be subject to disbarment...
...explained the recent canceling of minimums in his state by saying, "We felt that they had served the purpose, because through surveys we have taken, we knew that the income of the lawyers had been raised tremendously." All too clearly, that simple mercantile motivation has been a force behind fee schedules from the beginning...
Cooper makes sure that each artist has paid her $20 membership fee and $2 entry fee. Each artist makes sure that she rests in Cooper's affection. "They all use me," says Cooper, "because they think I can sell their work. All they want is to sell something. For their ego. They don't need the money...