41.   So while Providian typically charges higher rates, its customers find the extra cost is worth it, he said recently in a rare interview in his office here.

42.   Sino-foreign joint ventures will, it is said, be allowed to charge market rates and to develop properties along track-side land.

43.   Some limousine and gypsy-cab drivers, whose vehicles are not metered, charge exorbitant rates, he said.

44.   That company then would charge exorbitant rates for the call.

45.   That effort was subsidized, in part, by charging higher rates to businesses, Benedict, the regulator, said.

46.   That helps Sberbank to limit the amount it pays on deposits while still charging market rates for loans.

47.   That would allow landlords to charge market rates.

48.   Telephone companies have long charged higher rates for peak-hour usage.

49.   Telkom South Africa, which charges high rates for calls and can make customers wait six months for a phone, is seen as bloated and incompetent.

50.   The commission has never before even threatened to strip an energy trader of its ability to charge unregulated rates, commission officials said Tuesday night.