11.   As agencies impose fees, consumers who are computer literate will buy directly from the airlines over commercial computer systems.

12.   BankBoston has said preparations to impose the fees are going according to schedule and testing of the system should start soon.

13.   Bennett of Lycos said that even if competition prevented the company from imposing transaction fees, it could still profit by selling advertising on the auction pages.

14.   A federal appeals court last week ruled the U.S. Department of Education may have gone too far in imposing the fee on loans that Sallie Mae repackages as bonds.

15.   About three years ago, a fee was imposed on hotels by the city of Omaha.

16.   According to the Money Fund Report, money funds sold by brokers are more likely to impose higher fees.

17.   Britain, Ireland and Luxembourg have never imposed fees on analog tape-recording equipment, and they are against the digital fees as well.

18.   But to impose those fees, long-distance companies now have to generate monthly bills for all customers, regardless of whether they made any calls that month.

19.   China is dropping plans to impose a fee on foreign financial information vendors, relying on other means to regulate their business.