The IMF money is needed to help Turkey pay for its big domestic debt load.

BBC: 'Worst over' for Turkey

The city's teachers have been demoralised by pay cuts and a heavier teaching load.

ECONOMIST: Germany's Turkish minority

You also get to pay the next worst thing to a load: a premium.

FORBES: Fixed Income for Bears

Investors pay a 5.25% front load on top of an onerous 2.5% in annual expenses.

FORBES: Booby Prize

To keep costs low, Vanguard -- and many other no-load families -- refuses to pay the required fees.

FORBES: Mutual fund supermarkets

To be sure, the performance numbers we publish are net of all costs (other than the sales load, if any, you pay on entering the fund).

FORBES: Hidden Expenses

No one can figure out how to pay people for storage: distribution, transmission, or load leveling.

FORBES: Energy Storage Critical to Solar Industry

So why should investors pay fund managers an advisory fee of 1% and perhaps a sales load of 5% for this dubious service?

FORBES: Pensions Funds: Funding Unsavory Practices of Venture Capitalists (May 1, 2000)

Because the gamers pay as they go, rather than just once for the traditional game that they load onto their computer, it can be extremely lucrative if they get hooked.

ECONOMIST: Computer games

But crucially they failed to produce anything from them, and they were made to pay when Paul Deacon's nimble footwork saw him slip through the Huddersfield defence and off-load to Finnigan, who touched down by the posts.

BBC: Bradford 38-12 Huddersfield