Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair-minded coverage (a recent Journal-commissioned poll found that 60% of its readers feel that the paper is balanced. The remainder were evenly split between those who find it pro-Democrat and those who find it pro-Republican). Editor Dick Leonard insists that his reporters keep daily tab on all issues affecting Milwaukee. So close is its monitoring of local government that the pace of city office work slows perceptibly shortly after 1:30 each afternoon when the Journal appears - officials are checking to see what their colleagues...
...expensive room, a player takes you to a top restaurant and fixes you up with a couple of girls. It's really nice." Students who travel to Las Vegas for a look at the University of Nevada are put up at a Strip hotel, given a tab for meals, and sometimes receive limited gambling money...
...cranked in, the price of crude in world markets will nearly triple, to something like $9 per bbl. At present prices, worldwide customers shell out about $22 billion a year for the 6.2 billion bbl. of crude that the Middle East exports. When the new prices take effect, the tab will leap overnight to $55 billion or more...
...Agnew will need more help than that from his friends. What friends? "Well," says one former aide, "there's Frank Sinatra." Agnew and Sinatra dined with two other people at Chicago's classy, brassy Pump Room a few weeks back (total tab: $150), and the aging crooner is asking members of his crowd to contribute to the cause. Sinatra is also acting as agent for the book that Agnew plans to write some day, and is said to be asking $500,000. So far, no takers...
...grounds. Then came the discovery that the $4,000 Schiller prize, which Lorenz won just after the Nobel, had come from a German neo-Nazi group, who presumably had misunderstood his analysis of violence in On Aggression. Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps tab on the number of political prisoners round the world, Lorenz was visibly angry. "My work has always been apolitical," he declared. "But I am anticapitalist. The only politician I've admired is Alexander...