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kill fee

Remember I promised you a thou for a kill fee?

With the amount of power she's slinging, she could have killed Fee any time.

The company received a $430 million kill fee for the optical satellite system.

The kill fee was paid within days, without question.

It was returned with a kill fee sometime after 11 September for 'market reasons'.

What they will do is pay me a kill fee, then reassign the story to a staff writer.

And push to get a provision for a "kill fee" in case the article is rejected.

She did receive a kill fee, a payment that is guaranteed even if an article does not run.

The publisher was very sorry, and paid a decent kill fee in compensation.

Kill fees are a fraction of the contracted price.

The studio received only a small "kill fee" for their work on North Carolina.

How big are Ms. Brown's legendary writer salaries and kill fees?

Completed commissioned articles that are not for any reason published are subject to a kill fee of $200.

Now the financial services and cable television networks and drug companies are paying fat kill fees to buy back all their advertising.

The "kill fee" for contracts can be as high as one year's budget for a project.

This is different from a "kill fee," which magazines usually pay writers when an assigned piece is not accepted.

The kill fee is less - sometimes as much as 90 percent less - than the full amount promised to a writer.

Mr. Halberstam said he was paid "a small kill fee" for his efforts, but declined to specify the amount.

It would kill the kill fee.

Hanging up the phone, having just renegotiated my first kill fee, I wondered how much lower my free-lance career could sink.

Nick received a small kill fee, but not nearly enough to cover his expenses after flying round trip from Maine and spending five days on the expedition.

And, as you know, there is an out clause that enables us to rescind the contract and pay you a kill fee.

Rather he accepted an unprompted offer from the reviewer himself, made when he submitted the piece, to withdraw it for a "modest kill fee."

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A thou for expenses, three thou for the finished piece, and a thou kill fee.