Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...angry were the capital's estimated 50,000 prostitutes. In leaflets, addressed to the police and signed "the guardians of your happiness and well-being," they warned that they would stop selling their wares unless price controls would be eased to allow them to charge a minimum $10 fee...
...past 18 months the clinic's 56 patients have shed an average of 24 lbs. each. For their 20 hour-and-a-half sessions, at which they discuss their eating habits, patients pay a hefty fee of $500, no doubt part of the reason the clinic has had only five dropouts. Despite the dues (which go to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital for obesity research), Jordan and Levitz are booked solid until September and are now planning to train successful patients as lay consultants...
Capital equipment for the project will cost $70 million, and operating costs are estimated at $11 million a year. But the investment looks promising. The utility will not only save on its fuel bill and earn money from selling recoverable materials; it will also charge local governments a "dumping" fee for disposing of their refuse. If U.S. utilities follow Union's lead, the nation could conceivably conserve the equivalent of 290 million bbl. of oil per year, recover up to $1 billion worth of recyclable metals and, best of all, gain a final solution to the garbage-disposal problem...
...that it would diminish or even wreck the art market, depress prices, and discourage new collectors. These critics raise other objections: Why should an artist be entitled to a piece of the profit every time his work is resold when an architect, say, must settle for a single flat fee for designing a building that may be resold a dozen times? What if a collector resells a painting at a loss? And, given the informal nature of many transactions in the art world, how could any body possibly keep track of all the buying and selling...
...heard from a couple of other law schools though. One wanted the second page of his application, which he had failed to mail. Another wanted its money, since he had forgotten to send in an application fee. A third wanted a couple of missing recommendations. So perhaps the silence from Harvard meant only that he had forgotten entirely to mail the application...