Word: fees
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...Fee, fi, fo, fum—this time, the giant...
...fees paid to big names are a powerful inspiration. Bob Hope commands the highest price: $40,000 a speech. Radio Personality Paul Harvey pulls down $25,000. Jeane Kirkpatrick doubled her fee to $20,000 after she became a Republican. Seer Jeane Dixon can conjure up $7,000 but donates all fees to charity. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger goes for $18,000; his former boss, Richard Nixon, could command $25,000 but speaks for free. "The fees," says Speaker Agent Carleton Sedgeley, "simply follow the laws of supply and demand...
Those who sue are not primarily after a lot of money, the Iowa study showed (though their lawyers, often hired for a contingency fee, ask for large sums). They sue "to correct the record and to get even." Most tend to be public officials highly visible in their community. Their chance of winning in court is only one in ten. They persist against these odds because they want vindication...
...copies of the $15.95 book was sold out in a day, and another 25,000 have been ordered, although A Time for Peace is not likely to displace Elvis and Me from the top of the U.S. best-seller lists. Gorbachev, who will receive the standard 15% royalty fee, is giving his income from the book to Soviet Life, an English-language magazine that Moscow publishes...
About 30 million calls are expected to be made this year in California alone to special numbers that charge anywhere from 50¢ to $2 per call. For the fee, people can hear horoscopes, pornographic tales, children's stories, pop music, news or stock quotes...