Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual number of heedless motorists were stranded when they ran out of gas. Members of the Illinois Gasoline Dealers Association in Chicago banded together to deliver three gallons to each motorist who called, charging the pump price plus a $5 service fee and a $5 donation to the American Cancer Society. Their "hot line" logged more than 500 calls. Tow trucks on Los Angeles freeways dispensed so much fuel that by nightfall they were out and could only push cars off the roadway...
Because surgeons' work is more tangible and precise, surgery was the first area of medicine to come under critical scrutiny. For a half-century, the American College of Surgeons has condemned operations by insufficiently qualified surgeons, fee splitting between surgeons and the physicians who send them patients, and needless surgery. But while the college's professed policies are unimpeachably correct, effectiveness and enforcement are another matter. The college expels few of its errant members and does not publish the names of those expelled. Even after expulsion, a doctor can continue to practice "cut more, make more" surgery until...
...received no cancellations because of the indefinite flight schedule. Ninety-nine per cent of the 350 people who hold reservations on the two flights have paid their bill in full. HSA regulations normally stipulate a $15 cancellation fee...
...Helga is not her name. She is Model Marlene Appelt, and when she learned in Munich last week that she was on display in Penthouse, she was fit to be clothed. She remembers posing for German Photographer Michael Holtz last spring. But, she claims, "I was paid a piddling fee, and I was never informed that I was to be sold to Penthouse. If Michael had told me, I would never have given permission, since I consider Penthouse a pornographic magazine...
...even tougher bill to regulate strip mining than the one the Senate passed last month (TIME, Oct. 22). If it passes the full House, the bill will require surface miners not only to restore stripped land to its original contours, but also to pay a $2.50-per-ton fee to a fund set up to reclaim the land they ravaged in the process of digging...