Word: fee
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...auction prices for contemporary art have rocketed ever higher, galleries have been dreading this very possibility: that a famous artist would bypass his dealers - who usually get a cut of roughly half of a work's sale price - and make straight for the auction houses. (The auctioneer's fee is paid by the buyer on top of the sale price, which means Hirst will walk away with pretty much every dollar his work gets hammered down for.) If it meets expectations, the sale could put about $120 million into Hirst's already well-lined pockets, a payday unlike anything...
...finally convinced my wife I needed to buy one. "What about your BlackBerry?" she asked. "I can use the iPhone for work now, instead of my BlackBerry," I said. Grudgingly (the latest iPhone costs $199 or $299, plus I'd have to pay Verizon a $120 early-termination fee), she gave me the green light. Then tragedy struck: my 10-year-old morbidly obese Labrador retriever Otto tore...
...they thought they'd get a better interest rate. Nearly half reported using Visa or MasterCard to finance their education because they had no alternative. Some 3% of survey respondents said they have resorted to withdrawing money early from retirement savings, which can carry up to a 10% penalty fee...
...Laurence M. Daheron, who is the core facility manager, said that all iPS cell lines will be available free of charge for HSCI members and collaborators, but that non-members and biopharmaceutical companies will have to pay a fee to cover the cost of iPS lines expansion...
...would confuse Hefei Artillery Academy with Peking or Tsinghua universities, the Harvard and MIT of China. Yet parents had to pay about $1,250 in annual tuition plus a $5,400 "special fee" just to get their child into the academy. In a poor province like Anhui, that's serious money. Nor was the incident in Hefei isolated. Over the past two years, students attending at least four other colleges across China have rioted, claiming to have been misled about the degrees they were supposed to receive...