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Instead, Harvard left because the club, under pressure from members who disliked the intrusion of outsiders, hiked its rental fee, and the reunion got a better deal elsewhere, according to some club members...
Only half of our class was able to board at Radcliffe, though the fee for board and room in those days was only $550--an incredible bargain by today's standards. The rest worked their way through college...
...solidarity still exists among the so-called Baby Bells -- the seven regional phone companies that were created by the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Until now, each has enjoyed a monopoly on local telephone service in its own region; long-distance phone companies had to pay a hefty fee to, say, BellSouth, in order to connect to a phone customer in Atlanta. But through its new alliance, U S West will, in theory, be able to provide local phone service to Time Warner cable subscribers outside the Western states, threatening to grab a share of the long-distance connect...
...gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking $3 million per script, making him the town's hottest writer...
...slips do not produce red faces. It turned out that the investigation was touched off, in part, by a memo from Darnell Martens, president of an airline consulting firm, TRM, in which presidential friend and Inaugural chairman Harry Thomason has a 25% share. During the campaign, TRM received a fee for administrative work associated with carrier contracts and for locating suitable ground facilities. Thomason, who has a temporary office in the White House while he closes Inaugural accounts and advises the President on reorganization, passed Martens' memo on to the White House; the memo said that nine charter airlines...