A single call to a line offering information can cost more than $100.

Calls cost 36p cheap rate and 48p at all other times.

Each local call will cost from about 4 to 10.2 cents.

Today, the call costs $3.78, and the price is expected to drop more.

Your call should not cost more than a first class stamp.

If the operator cannot do that, ask how much the call will cost.

Your call should cost around the price of a first class postcard.

A call made through the program, called You, costs $3 for the connection, plus $1.25 a minute.

"Perhaps the biggest surprise was that the calls cost each consumer $50 or more."

Dial the number and ask what the call will cost, because the sky is the limit.

Ofcom has also produced a very basic guide to call costs.

Call costs from mobile and pay phones is higher.

There are also signs of movement in managing what Mr. Reich calls the "transition costs."

The former permits recovery of what are called stranded costs, investments in generating plants, equipment and services not yet paid for.

Republican leaders called the program a major success because of a wide choice of plans, lower-than-expected costs and strong enrollment.

Variable costs are sometimes called unit-level costs as they vary with the number of units produced.

One of the hardest issues was how to deal with the $20 billion to $30 billion of what are called stranded costs.

The remaining costs are called institutional costs, and they can be treated as fixed.

Most important is the opposite of what economists call social costs or externalities.

These are collectively called costs of compliance.