In the central areas of larger cities such as New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, and even Los Angeles, street congestion can be intense and parking fees high.
Parents could tire of paying the fees, while intense competition threatens to undercut the novelty.
Fuss, 64, earns his fees by intense research on individual issues.
When merchants earn negligible surplus (due to intense retail competition), interchange fees cannot play their normal reallocative role.
As competition for the treatment dollar became more intense, patient brokering and referral fees (to name a couple of indiscretions) appeared, and next came investigations at both the federal and state levels, followed by indictments, convictions, and prison terms for some.
Though her interest in Martin is limited, this Lola (Salma Hayek) engages him, for a fee, in vague, intense conversations about his mother.
But because the developers pay their fees, and there is intense pressure to stick to construction schedules, critics say this approach is ripe for abuse.
Expert networks, which connect investors like hedge funds with executives at publicly traded companies for a fee, have come under intense scrutiny from regulators examining whether consultants have illegally disclosed nonpublic information to clients.
Before SOX and related reforms, audit partners were challenged to keep up with their fellow consulting and tax partners as their practices earned lower fees and were subject to intense competition from rival firms.
- Despite the expansion of low-cost or officially free ELSR models of provision, affordability of ELSR services remains a barrier for many families because of informal fees and costs arising under intense competition for places.
