Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heightened the cost of maintaining a 463-member royal staff that includes equerries, stable grooms and pot scrubbers, as well as secretaries and clerks. The Civil List, however, is only a part of the estimated $14 million spent annually to maintain the monarchy. The government also picks up the tab for three of the five royal residences, the royal yacht, a seldom used royal train and a royal helicopter fleet...
...OECD estimates that the tab for near self-sufficiency-in terms of higher oil prices, slower growth and investment in new production and alternate energy sources-could add up to $2 trillion between now and 1985 for the industrial nations. Its report dryly observes that some governments might decide that the sacrifices involved in achieving absolute energy independence "may be undesirable." In the end, all governments will have to balance the need for self-sufficiency against other national priorities...
Despite the hardships, each year some 600 executives sign up for O.B.'s raft trips and another 60 for the more grueling ten-day hikes. In many cases the tab, ranging from $200 to $400 per person, is picked up by the company. Eastman Kodak, IBM, Gates Rubber, Adolph Coors Co., a beer producer, and Martin-Marietta regularly pay the way for their management personnel. William Coors, president of Adolph Coors, has himself scaled canyons and run rapids on ten O.B. trips. Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp., has braved...
...bitterly with his fellow Democrats as with Flournoy. He is running almost entirely on his own; his ticket mates rarely appear on the same platform or billboard. To finance his campaign, he depends upon contributions, almost all of which he raises without the help of his father. Total tab for the primary and main race: $2.5 million. No fewer than four of his aides carefully check every donation to make sure it carries no stain of scandal...
...workers has swarmed over the 60,000-seat arena day and night for three months, replacing the seats, installing lavatories and building new dressing rooms. Much of the effort aimed at impressing foreigners will go for naught. Few Americans or Europeans were willing to pay the $2,500 tab that Schwartz originally put on flight-fight packages. Zaïre declined to deal with other tour promoters, and a number of airline charters were canceled. Still, Kinshasa is a prettier place for Mobutu's effort, and he has certainly succeeded in drawing international attention...