71.   Instead, the company now charges smokers more for health coverage.

72.   Intel and Hitachi have no business agreement, but Fuhrer said he believed his company would charge a small licensing fee.

73.   In their lawsuit, the tobacco companies charge that regulation would hurt their ability to compete and would violate their freedom of speech.

74.   It would also allow states to let companies charge customers for some costs they incurred as a regulated monopoly.

75.   It would also ease a host of broadcasting and foreign-ownership laws and lift most limits on the prices cable companies can charge subscribers.

76.   Key negotiators have agreed to loosen the rules that limit the rates cable TV companies can charge, potentially ending one of their most divisive disagreements.

77.   LEGISLATION PASSED Would restrict rates that independent phone companies can charge at coin-operated telephones.

78.   Legally, insurance companies cannot charge HIV patients higher premiums to compensate for an increase in care.

79.   Local telephone companies charge long-distance phone companies a set rate, known as an access charge, every time they complete a long-distance call to a local customer.

80.   Lockyer also announced on Thursday that he had filed lawsuits in state court contending that eight more companies charged illegal rates during the power crisis.