Word: tab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Together with eleven Cambridge churches the Corporation has been working on plans for a moderate income housing development. The Corporation picked up the tab for initial soil tests, architects' plans, and an application for federal subsidies...
Apart from causing interest costs to rise, the mini-pound should benefit U.S. consumers. However, the price of British goods shipped abroad will fall not by the full 14.3% devaluation but from zero to about 10%, depending chiefly on how much of the final tab represents transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some...
...past Radcliffe compiled only one budget report annually and it was published ten months after the end of the fiscal year. Consequently department heads could not know whether their departments were running in the black, Britten explained. Beginning this fall, Radcliffe has kept a monthly tab on expenditures by computer, and immediately relays the results to department heads...
Before the French Revolution it was the accepted responsibility of well-heeled aristocrats to pick up the tab for the creative arts, enabling them to flourish without financial cares. As ballet's reigning Lady Bountiful, Rebekah Harkness is a throwback-in the best sense-to those gallant times...
POLITICAL debate has not always steamed the windows and bored the ascetes of college dining halls. In fact, the tab collar set of the '50's were just so un-radical they were dubbed "The Silent Generation." Growing up under McCarthyism, they had an instinctive fear of speaking out against the status quo. The newness of the hydrogen bomb and the strength of the Communist monolith validated the Cold War with an incredible rationality...