Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some politicians are beginning to press for revisions in federal spending policies. They reason that their states can no longer afford to pick up the tab, like patsy older brothers, to fatten other parts of the U.S. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one for the next President, particularly if he hails from a place like Georgia. Sensing its deepening distress if not decay, can anyone fault the Northeast and Midwest for wanting at least to break even...
...Last week the Federal Power Commission decided to put that perennial hypothesis to the test. By a 3-to-1 vote, the commissioners sharply jacked up the price of much of the natural gas that is now piped across state lines. If the decision holds up in court, the tab for consumers will swell by $1.5 billion over the next year alone...
...their own private splash party. The East German women's team, which had never won an Olympic gold medal, took nearly all of them last week-and a lioness's share of the silvers and bronzes too. In fact, for a time the simplest way to keep tab on the women's medal count was to tally the ones the East Germans did not get. It was not until the fourth day that their domination was broken, and then not by the U.S. but by the Russians, who swept the 200-meter breaststroke. Through the first five...
...Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
Unless the Arab patient can afford it, the Israeli government usually picks up the tab. Such generosity is not without political overtones; it not only undermines Arab belligerence but also counters complaints-recently voiced by the Arabs and their supporters before the World Health Organization-that Israel is giving inadequate medical care to Arabs under its own rule. Basri, however, has no illusions about any diplomatic payoff from Doctor. "We're all waiting for peace," she observes, "but the sick can't wait...