Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from ticket sales. The Met is squeezing as much as it can out of its ticket-buyers; at $40 an orchestra seat next season (up from $37.50 this year), an evening at the opera is probably the most expensive form of entertainment available to New Yorkers short of a meal at the Palace. And European opera houses often charge more...
...meal supposedly came with bread and butter, except that the waiter forgot the butter with one of the rolls, and the melted butter accompanying the other was cleverly packaged in a piece of golden tinfoil, making it a greasy chore to unwrap. Don't however, fill up on dry bread; you'll want to save at least a little room for dessert, just so you can order things out of the spinning Frididaire...
...University has not charged the Massachusetts meal tax to student termbills this year, although worksheets mailed to students last summer included the tax in projected board costs, Jerrold R. Gibson, director of Fiscal Services, said yesterday...
Frances P. Holland, chief of the Sales Excise Bureau, said yesterday until an August 1975 ruling by the Revenue Commission that specifically included colleges in the tax, some colleges payed no meal taxes. "We simply didn't always have the staff to collect from them," he said...
With plan A, students who choose 14 meals are subsidizing those who choose the 21 meal plan. With plan B, those who stay with the current 21 meal plan are penalized. Also, this sets the precedent of providing better services at Harvard-Radcliffe to those who can afford to pay more...