During that lengthy event, European airlines were required to pay meal and hotel bills for marooned passengers.

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Despite frequent media outrage and a steady stream of complaints, these types of fees continue to show up on hotel bills.

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Asks for money for a variety of reasons (travel, medical emergencies, hotel bills, hospitals bills for child or other relative, visas or other official documents, losses from a financial setback or crime victimization).

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The Jordanians had been turning away young Iraqis at the border and the airport for several months, but they issued Yaghdan and his wife three-day visas, after which they had to pay a daily fine, on top of hotel bills.

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Many thousands of publicly funded part-time hours have gone into the campaign, and I doubt that even Ms. Williams would suggest that of the 400 or so delegates who attended February's "Toward a Mine-Free Southern Africa" conference in Maputo, Mozambique, there were many who paid their own airfares and hotel bills.

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However, news reports in Argentina and Uruguay claimed that Antonini Wilson's hotel bills and other expenses in Montevideo had been paid for by the Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA. A warrant has been issued for Wilson's arrest by an Argentine court and Prosecutor Luz Rivas Diez said she wants to have him detained so he can answer questions about the cash.

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Imagine what those hotel and meal bills looked like!

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It helps to keep a stash of small bills in your wallet for cab drivers, hotel porters and bar staff.

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"Maybe some 30 people were going to Italy but not us, " he says and starts brandishing dollars bills to show he has money and was not relying on any shadowy middleman to pay his hotel bill.

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