Not getting a major fee for Cabaye - the biggest offer was £10.2 million from Arsenal - is Kinnear's only real failure.
But it could be that major fee-based services like America Online, the Microsoft Network and CompuServe will end up as biggest beneficiaries of the free-I.S.P. shakeout.
And though some who sit around the cabinet table came from state schools (the foreign secretary William Hague is a good example), there is still something remarkable about how many of the top political jobs are currently held by people who went to some of Britain's major fee-paying institutions: among them, the prime minister, the deputy prime minister, the chancellor, and the mayor of London.
"As we've seen in many states, California's big utilities proposed to cut net metering credit and add major new fees for customers who want to go solar," Susannah Churchill, West Coast Regional Director for Vote Solar, told reporters on a conference call to release the study.
As major findings, fee-based income seems to be riskier than margin income but offers diversification benefits to bank shareholders.
Many major banks waive fees for consumers willing to do business electronically, using the telephone, A.T.M. or Internet.
In recent years, we've seen new and vexing ancillary fees, major capacity cuts, price increases, fewer amenities in coach, and ever-increasing hassles at airport security.
"Doctor Fees Major Factor in Health Costs, Study Says" (news article, Sept. 8) cites a study that draws a questionable conclusion about health care spending in our nation.
While some private colleges and universities have seen their endowments and alumni donations fall this year along with the stock market, those losses have not yet had a major effect on fees or student services.
Most major banks charge fees for foreign transactions.
