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...thing right. States do play by a different set of rules and they cannot afford to have deficits. Financial lenders give states credit ratings based on their fiscal discipline. If your personal credit rating is bad, you cannot borrow money from anyone unless their idea of a late fee is breaking your leg. States with bad credit ratings face similar problems...
...government, too, takes commissions. When survivors or their descendants locate properties bought before the Holocaust in what was then Palestine, the government charges them a 5% "administration fee" for managing these abandoned assets through the years. Yet officials acknowledge they never looked for heirs to the property, which is now worth $35 million. Aharon Shindler heads the Ministry of Justice department newly charged with sifting through abandoned properties and bank accounts to find which owners may have died in the Holocaust. Shindler's list will be expected to be completed in the spring. A new squad of investigators being hired...
Some suppliers have balked, and in a few cases Diebold has decided not to hold an auction just to preserve those relationships. But it has also found new suppliers. Diebold has realized at least a 15% savings on commodities bought through FreeMarkets, more than enough to justify the flat fee that Diebold pays for the service...
...Regardless, hiking long distance prices in order to pay for line installation is either an underhanded attempt to hide this expense from students or an idiotic way to get us to pay. If the University is truly unable to afford telephone wiring in buildings, then they should include the fee with our room and board, not by differentially distributing the cost according to who makes the most long distance phone calls...
This scheme will only hurt the University in the long run. The fee hike that will take effect in January will only make HSTO less competitive with the falling prices of the cellular phone industry. Even those who harbor the most stalwart opposition to cell phones (like me) will balk at the growing prices that HSTO offers and opt for the cell phone instead. As more students take this alternative, a vicious cycle will ensue. Fewer students will use HSTO for long distance service, lowering its revenue. In order to break even, HSTO will have to raise the rates, causing...