Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sketch out the anatomy of the vote, TIME correspondents across the nation kept close tab on carefully selected, representative precincts on Election Night, interviewing voters and comparing the final vote tallies with those of previous elections. From their reports, the following analysis of key voting groups emerges...
...Tab. U.S. and foreign experts who convened at the University of Colorado's recent energy conference in Boulder, fully expect that the current price of $11.51 per bbl. (for low-sulfur crude at the Persian Gulf) will rise anywhere from 10% to 20%. As OPEC members see it, the industrialized nations can well afford the tab. The world recession seems to have largely lifted, and crude oil sales are rising as a result. Tanker charters have emerged from the doldrums, as top customers have scrambled to stock up on crude before the price rises again, often paying...
Meanwhile, judges were keeping a tab on the players with an eye toward selecting first, second, and third-team all-star squads to compete in another tournament in Rye, New York later this month...
...shaped steel reinforcement beams and a giant shock absorber consisting of 600 tons of lead and steel attached by springs on the 58th floor. Stronger tempered glass was installed in all 10,344 windows. The renovations cost $15 million, which helped run the building's total tab to more than $150 million, twice what the company had expected to pay when ground was broken...
...sequel to Westworld, a movie that concerned a sinister amusement park called Delos. The place was staffed with robots that were controlled by a bank of computers tended by some frosty-eyed scientists in immaculate white smocks. Delos was dedicated to the fulfillment of adult fantasy: pay the hefty tab for a stay at the park and one could be a gunfighter in the Old West, say, or a knight preparing for a joust. The robots eventually rebelled, however, and hay wired the whole park...