Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July party, when as many as 5,000 Americans in town drop by. (The British ambassador in Washington gets an estimated $100,000 for expenses.) Result: the U.S. jobs go regularly to wealthy campaign contributors-some good, some poor -who can afford to foot the five-figure expense tab...
Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
Seven similar check-processing centers are already in operation in other areas of the state, and the new center will keep tab on their operations as well, maintaining a running picture of the bank's business in all of its 702 California branches. Computers in the new center will scan a list of 349,300 of the bank's real estate and installment loans, send reminders to delinquents. By Teletype the center is linked to the bank's 72 overseas offices. The center is the latest example of the revolutionary changes banks are going through to keep...
Each year when the time comes for Morocco's three-day independence blowout, a kindly foreign friend is called upon to pick up most of the tab. In 1959 the U.S. donated a fleet of trucks and armored vehicles to roll in the parade down the palm-lined streets of King Mohammed V's old capital of Marrakech. This year the U.S. dutifully came through with another $3,500,000 worth of motorized equipment and weapons-part of a fiveyear, $20 million military-aid program...
...ground expenses), fares should not be calculated on a straight price-per-mile basis. Instead, statisticians worked out a new cost curve that drops as flights get longer. Thus, round-trip flights from Montreal to Vancouver, now $246, could be cut to as low as $182, while the $24 tab on the short Montreal-Toronto run should go up a few dollars...