He typically charges a fixed fee and takes a 10% commission on all goods ordered.

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Operators will simply pay the government a fixed fee and a share of their revenue.

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Even when the client and vendor agree to a fixed fee, the vendor can charge for work not outlined in the original contract.

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We need what business historian Alfred Chandler called the "visible hand of managerial capitalism, " the deliberate involvement of an integrated, fixed-fee provider that covers the patient from start to finish and profits from patient wellness.

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Instead of charging a fixed transaction fee for clearing the rights, Corbis tries to buy low and sell high, capturing the spread as revenue.

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It calls for offering senior citizens a choice between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and a premium support system that would provide a fixed government payment to help them buy private health insurance.

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Under a production-sharing contract, an oil company would recoup its costs and then be entitled to a proportion of the oil extracted, instead of being paid a fixed fee for each barrel.

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In that climate of uncertainty the U.S. Agency for International Development opted for a cost-plus, fixed-fee deal--a contract often used by governments to exert some control over costs and give the contractor incentive to engage in open-ended work.

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Until now, the mobile hotspot market has given users essentially two basic payment plans, both of which are borrowed from the phone market: You can prepay for some fixed amount of data and re-up when you run out, or you can plop down a monthly fee for a capped per-month allocation of bits.

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