Word: fees
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...coffee? If Starbucks can manage that trick, perhaps it can make wi-fi profitable too. But one thing is almost certain: relying on cash-strapped students isn't likely to work. Trouble is, the much sought-after mobile professionals who can afford the wi-fi fee also prefer a more private space where they can conduct business and talk on a cell phone in peace...
...fee could soon be imposed on international students to cover expenses for the newly developed Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a database designed to track foreign students studying in the United States. While such a system is worthwhile, the price set by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for its maintenance is seemingly too high and has not been sufficiently justified...
While charging fees to foreign students is understandable—the revenue will help to maintain SEVIS, as the law providing for the database outlined—$100 is unnecessarily high. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which had overseen SEVIS, was folded into the DHS in March, but seven months earlier, in August 2002, they had hired KPMG Consulting to determine a practical per-international-student fee to maintain the database. The firm found that the fee could safely fall well below the original Congressional ceiling of $95 and that only $54 per student was needed to cover...
However, all the careful planning would have been in vain without a band, and Boston’s own Guster was a perfect fit. The combination of the $35,000 band fee and $8,000 in production expenses fell within the HCC budget while still allowing for affordable ticket prices...
Casey, who lobbies in Washington, D.C., in consultation with Ladd, said he plans to work with several similar associations to which the University belongs, reporting back to the government as soon as a consensus emerges on the DHS’s proposed fee...