Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Javits' knowledgeable, purposive mien wins him the respect of many who abhor his philosophy?and generous support from those who share it. To raise funds for his 1962 campaign, 20 luncheons were held at New York's 21 Club, each for 24 persons. If the tab was high, the take was higher: $250,000 from the 480 guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose...
...quiet complaints that the plane was too short-legged for reliable, nonstop transatlantic flight. Those modifications, along with a "stretched" cabin which boosts passenger capacity from 118 to a more profitable 136, have helped send development costs soaring from the original estimate of $500 million to $1.1 billion. The tab for each plane, accordingly, has risen from $10 million to $16 million...
Basic Motive. Started at Oberlin, where an IBM 1620 computer matches hunters and victims and keeps tab of point totals, the game spread to the Illinois Institute of Technology, and last month reached the University of Chicago, where 100 paired hunters and victims, including four members of the faculty, were last week furiously playing at murder...
...rates, will disqualify some prospective home buyers because FHA will require proportionately higher incomes to meet the higher monthly payments. Six months ago, Miami Builder Ken Laurence was selling a $12,500 model with a total monthly payment of $74, including taxes and insurance; last week, with the interest tab up ½% and maximum FHA terms sliced from 35 to 30 years, the same house sold for $13,000, with a $99 monthly payment. "It's sure to kill a lot of our sales," said Laurence...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...