But some consumer companies are charging much stiffer fees.

The association says its stiff annual fee -up to $640,000 per product - will simply cover testing costs.

In cities all over, aliens are paying stiff fees to notaries public to prepare forms for them.

"We pay the nobles one hell of a stiff fee for running civilization," he said.

He reminds me of my pitch for hard cash, the stiff fees I quoted in our first meeting.

But the problem until now has been that immigrants sending cash home often paid stiff fees.

The stiff fees you pay to the foreign government for this privilege insure the privacy and protection of true ownership.

But I owe him much, much more than what seemed like a stiff fee at the time.

Others who want an additional child pay stiff fees.

He'd had to pay a stiff fee to the university police to bring it inside the district.