81.   Mail-order companies charge for shipping, whereas retailers have to collect local sales tax.

82.   Medicare is supposed to receive a discount on the prices that pharmaceutical companies charge other customers.

83.   Once the cap was lifted, the power companies could charge whatever they wanted.

84.   One of the most explosive battles is over a seemingly obscure question about the access fees that local telephone companies charge long-distance carriers for connections to individual customers.

85.   Other companies charge nothing at all.

86.   Panasonic has not announced how much the company will charge for the phone.

87.   Philippine Senator Freddie Webb, chairman of the Committee on Energy, said he will seek a cap on the price oil companies can charge for fuels.

88.   Poor countries have complained loudly that international drug companies charge far more for many medicines than they can afford to pay.

89.   Profits come from volume production or limited production with high-priced parts, since contract companies charge their clients by the number of items they build and deliver.

90.   Q. If Linux is supposed to be a free operating system, why do companies charge for it?