Morgan Chase told The Wall Street Journal that its Chase retail unit had decided to drop its test of debit-card fees.

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Stop work on a revised citizen test, save some consultancy fees, and instead set your TV to record Danny Boyle's opening ceremony on 27 July.

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The success of Little Cyclops however has helped him pay-off mounting student fees and encouraged him to further test his powers of invention.

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Investors' willingness to pay these fees is being further put to the test by the biggest single threat to the rest of the fund industry: the success of Vanguard, a Pennsylvanian company that sells funds linked to stockmarket indices.

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Soon after he won power, Mr Blair decided to abolish the maintenance grants of university students throughout the United Kingdom, and to require many students (subject to a means test) to contribute to the cost of their tuition fees.

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If the client wanted more help, Schwab later punted him off to a small army of 400 investment advisers, the independent financial planners who passed Schwab's sniff test for fee-based services and unbiased service and who agreed to pay referral fees for the clients.

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