31.   Access charges are set artificially high so that local phone companies can charge less for residential phone service than it costs them to provide it.

32.   Accounting rule makers recommend that companies charge the fair value of options granted to employees as a compensation expense, but they do not require it.

33.   All companies charge extra for overnight shipping.

34.   Also, the Internet companies will charge that local phone companies are in fact making money from the increase in the sale of second phone lines, Misener said.

35.   Britton praised the ruling, saying the company had been charging less than what it costs to provide inside wire repair.

36.   Both companies charge customers for late bill payment and for bouncing checks.

37.   But investigators have found that some companies have inflated the average prices reported to the government so that Medicare reimbursements are higher than what the companies most often charge.

38.   But some spoilsport credit card companies are now charging a transaction fee.

39.   But using a historic valuation based on the original cost of the computer would enable the Bell companies to charge significantly higher prices.

40.   Buying a few sector-specific funds may offer another way to get the expertise that fund companies are charging so dearly for.