For example, a song: but the credit card company is going to be charging some 25 cents as a basic fee on the purchase.

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Subscribers who pay that basic fee get access to the top 20 stories in The New York Times and all the content from USA Today and the Washington Post, plus one other paper of their choosing.

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The fee cuts ignore a basic fact: That franchise fee is there for a reason.

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It is unclear whether the bank, which counts more than 55 million U.S. households as customers, will stick with its initial idea for a basic flat-fee checking account that doesn't offer a way to avoid paying a charge.

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Kyruus will charge a subscription fee for basic services and charge more for analytics.

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Unlike much of the competition, including NBC Universal, the company lacks a stable of fee-generating basic cable networks.

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It's free for a basic page and for a small monthly fee you can access more features.

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Furthermore, the setting of the Medicare fee schedule exempts most of medicine from basic rules of supply-and-demand.

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At first they invested in a basic-level membership that had the lowest monthly fee and a two-figure monthly minimum on dining service.

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The basic service is free, but users who want the bells and whistles pay a fee.

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