Word: fees
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...banks' margins are squeezed, there's one other looming consequence: higher fees. "They've got to do something to remain profitable," says Rick Barham, CEO of Market Rates Insight, which tracks pricing trends for financial institutions. His firm is being flooded with requests for fee studies - competitive overviews of how much other banks are getting away with charging customers for things like bounced checks. Many banks are moving to a tiered fee structure. The first time you overdraw your account, you might be charged $28, but do it again and the penalty becomes...
...Eventually, we can abolish the student activities fee entirely and rely entirely on the goodness of the land,” Waite says...
...just transferred to Harvard last spring. That being the case, it wasn’t until this October that I found out what the Undergraduate Council was. It was at that time that I also discovered this organization, of which I was scarcely aware, had claimed an optional $75 fee from my termbill. I was confused—no one had ever asked if I wanted to pay this fee. I checked the termbill Web site. It explained the UC fee as an optional “fee of $75 added to all College students’ bills?...
...theory, the collection of this fee seems like a great opportunity to support a genuinely pro-student organization. But in practice, certain aspects of the fee’s collection actually undermine the UC’s representative mission. The UC has a responsibility to educate students about the nature of their annual contributions, and make sure there are no undue barriers to opting out of paying them. The failure to do so could seriously damage the UC’s legitimacy as a unique advocate for all undergraduates...
Better Place, founded in 2007 with the encouragement of the Israeli government, allows electric car users access to charging stations and battery swap locations powered by renewable energy for a fee. The company’s model has been implemented in Israel and Denmark, and plans have been made to introduce the infrastructure to California’s Bay Area and Hawaii...