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...experience of applying for passports in their native Wuhan has been decidedly sour. What should have been a simple matter of filling out a few forms and paying a $24 processing fee has become a Kafkaesque ordeal. In October the entry and exit section of their local police station told them they needed to secure permission from their work unit. The work unit chief declined to grant them leave without the permission of the local police. When they went to the Wuhan Ministry of Public Security to ask for an explanation, a political protection officer curtly told them they were...
...seemed almost too good to be true, an opportunity to escape London's dreary non-summer and fly to Pisa for a weekend for an improbable $7, excluding airport taxes and a handling fee. Seeing the offer on the website for Ryanair, the no-frills Irish airline, I immediately tapped in a couple of convenient dates, credit card at the ready. But excitement soon turned to disappointment as I realized that not only were all the promotional offers gone, so were the seats in the next price bracket ... and the next ... and the next. The cheapest seat I could find...
...Because the competition is so fierce, Opera has been forced to rethink its strategy. For the first four years in business, the company charged $39 for its product. A lot of users discovered ways to employ the software without paying the fee, however, so last year Opera decided to try a different model. The browser was released in two versions: an ad-free one for the usual $39 and a fee-free one that contained advertisements. "We recognized we would never be able to get the number of users we hoped for without giving it away," says chief financial officer...
...Twenty dollars today is not the same as it was in 1988, the last time the fee was raised. So the increase basically compensates for inflation and for the increase in student activities," said Undergraduate Council President Paul A. Gusmorino...
...Harvard student body voted to reject increasing the term-bill fee from $20 to $50, a move long supported by members of the Undergraduate Council...