Deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has raised the possibility that the BBC could be funded by something other than a licence fee, describing the current £145.50 a year compulsory charge as a "means to an end, not an end in itself".
Yet it has become clear that some of them might well have cause to ask, as Dickens's original Oliver Twist, did: "Please, sir, can I have some more?" Although they are an important part of a show that has broken all advance booking records, taking £15m in ticket sales before curtain-up last week, some of the large cast of child actors receive a fee described as "measly" by others in the industry.
The payout was part of an unusual three-pronged breakup fee, described in a filing Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Madden signed a permanent deal at Huish Park three months later - for an undisclosed fee described as a "bargain" by boss Gary Johnson - and finished the regular season with 22 for the Glovers, helping them reach the League One play-offs.
Retired CBC investigative journalist and novelist Linden MacIntyre, who was harshly criticized by CBC management for complaining about senior correspondents claiming fees, describes Solomon's fall as "the kind of lapse in common sense that happens when you get too big for your britches".
Consumer group Choice welcomed the action on transaction fees, describing it as a decision "to crush sky-high credit card surcharging".
I reminded the Board in 1994 that there was a new practice in town, not earlier foreseen, whereby most dramatic shows and even some comedy shows were going directly from their broadcast run of original airing and perhaps one network summer rerun to a cable station like USA or Lifetime (instead of local broadcast channels and syndicated at 7 p.m. or 11 p.m. -- which pay the fees I describe above).
To win approval for a block party, a person must complete an "application for street activity permit," pay $15 in fees, describe what will be deployed ("will red carpet, rope and stanchions be used?"), and specify whether sound will be amplified (if so, a second permit is necessary from the Police Department, $45 extra).
On employment fees, the report describes the justice minister Shailesh Vara's "heavy reliance on the figure of 83,000 cases dealt with at Acas early conciliation to support his contention that access to justice has not been adversely affected by employment tribunal fees [as], even on the most favourable construction, superficial".
Tata Martino had described the fee for Bale as a "lack of respect to the world".
