Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That plunk in the cup just starts the fun. First, the lucky golfer has to buy drinks for everybody in the clubhouse. (If he has been thoughtful enough to buy hole-in-one insurance at $2 a year, the insurance company will pick up the tab.) The newspapers run the story; gifts start arriving in the mail. In the old days, it was a case of Wheaties or a carton of Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips...
...decided that though "art would follow inevitably, I had first of all to become a man." His father, who was a music professor, indulged him with a tolerance far in advance of the times. In the next four years, his family picked up the tab for drawing classes in Munich, "May wine orgies" with the models, a tour of Italy, and conscience payments to a pregnant mistress...
...Tab. If Fein had no weakness for television, he had a couple of others to make up for it. As president of his father's thriving tin-can and cardboard-box business, he seemed to have everything he needed-the best clothes, a sleek, white Lincoln Continental, an eight-room Park Avenue apartment in which he maintained his attractive wife, Nancy, and their three children. But Fein, slender, bespectacled and Milquetoast-mild in appearance, frittered away a small fortune on a pair of extracurricular pursuits-gambling and Gloria Kendal. In her 37 years, the last 16 of them spent...
...fast and have now passed the $80 billion-a-year mark. While federal tax revenues have risen 42% to $89.4 bil lion a year since 1953, state and local revenues have spiraled 134% to $49 billion-frequently distressing both the individuals and the corporations who have to pay the tab...
...Pentagon's men usually do somewhat better than sandwiches and Cokes. The capital's swankiest restaurants abound with credit-card-packing contractors wining and dining hungry procurement colonels. During conventions of military officers' associations, it has become standard practice for defense firms to pick up the tab for convention banquets. Companies also maintain "hospitality suites" in convention hotels where tired brass can booze or snooze...