Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, as it unfolded in court, seemed remarkably simple. By Jack's own admission to the county grand jury, he had allowed longtime Crony Sidney J. Ungar, a real estate operator seeking city approval of a $30 million slum-clearance scheme, to pick up a $4,400 tab for the 1958 remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar had loaned the money without...
...gets into serious trouble. The New York Telephone Co. starts right at the door of its personnel office, puts great reliance on careful employee interviewing and aptitude tests to put workers in suitable jobs that will not cause or aggravate an emotional upset. Many company psychiatrists, unable to keep tab on all workers, train managers and supervisors to watch for signs of mental disturbance. Dr. Alan McLean, fulltime psychiatrist for IBM, spends half his time coaching executives in this art. He warns them against trying to play psychiatrist, insists that workers be immediately referred to a psychiatrist or plant doctor...
...tab was $100 a couple, but the show would have been cheap at any price...
...rare in his' adopted state: a school district that spends money. This began in 1956, when Rockefeller launched a $2,500,000 plan "to set a pattern for other school districts to follow." He has since given Morrilton schools $100,000 a year, picked up the $800,000 tab for a model elementary school, and so roused the citizenry that they floated a $350,000 bond issue, doubled real estate assessment and boosted school taxes...
...easiest ways to predict the future, according to a widely held Wall Street belief, is to assume that the public-or small investor-is wrong in sensing major changes in the market. Thus such chartists as Jacques Coe, senior partner of Jacques Coe & Co., keep close tab on whether the public is buying or selling by watching the trading in odd lots (fewer than 100 shares). Coe contends that the public is timid about buying as the market rises, usually buys heaviest near...