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...THINGS stand now, the cost of heat and electricity in the dormitories is absorbed into the general room fee. As anyone who has rented an apartment knows, it is far easier to leave the lights on or take long, hot showers when all utilities are included in the rent...
...installing individual meters is too costly, the University could consider a policy in effect at several other schools and levy a special annual fee on users of electrical appliances (something like $5 per computer, $15 per stereo or microwave, $25 per television, etc.). Random inspections (the same ones that root out illegal poster-hanging methods) and steep fines for evaders would suffice to enforce payment of the fees...
...hour, have not been paid in 11 months, and say they can no longer afford to represent the former Panamanian leader. They asked Judge Hoeveler to set aside a ceiling of $75 an hour for government-paid public defenders so that they could continue representing Noriega for their normal fee, but the judge seemed unmoved. He said "some top-flight criminal-defense lawyers" were willing to handle the case at the government's comparatively low hourly scale...
...poker player whose demons persuaded him to spend a year trying to beat the world's best professionals at their lovely, wily game. Holden started with some credit cards and a scrawny $20,000 in capital and played mostly in tournaments, in which players buy in for an entry fee and then risk no further money. He knew his cards, and he won some and lost some. But card sense is the lesser part of poker, which is a game of money management at its middle levels, and of character -- an odd sort of frontier monasticism might describe...
...place at medical school is valuable because of a variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...