Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington has refused to let American fishermen buy Ecuadorian licenses (as Japanese fishermen do, for example) on the grounds that it would tacitly acknowledge the legitimacy of the 200-mile claim. At the same time, the U.S. Treasury has picked up the tab for the fines. Every year, however, the ante has been going up: last year 51 U.S. boats were captured, and the fines amounted to $2.5 million...
...when my mind is clear and make some notes. I never get out of bed, though, because then I would wake up fully. The next morning I look at the notes in the light of day." Near the bed is a white phone marked with a red tab that reads "secure." Says Nixon: "I usually don't use it, though; it's too complicated...
...easy. Of course, entire structures can be torn down, but not many people want to do that. Alternatively, hot structures can be jacked up and the fill replaced with dirt. But all this is expensive, and neither the state nor the AEC has been eager to pick up the tab. The whole problem is confused by the continuing debate about how much radiation is dangerous-an incredibly difficult decision since effects may not show up for several generations...
...commission's attitude will force many companies to keep much closer tab on their productivity and profit margins. Some complain that the task seems impossible. "We have never developed a productivity measure that satisfied us over the short span," says Dean McNeal, vice president of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Co. On the other hand, Grayson, as a business school dean on leave from S.M.U., appears to relish the idea of pressuring companies into stricter cost accounting...
Everywhere the Chinese appeared there was a horde of paparazzi-like newsmen. Reporters peered over the delegates' shoulders as they breakfasted on omelets and lunched on breast of chicken. They even checked the luncheon tips with waitresses (a precise 15%). After paying their first breakfast tab with a $100 bill, the Chinese began signing for everything. Through it all, the delegates managed resigned smiles and noncommittal answers. One mission member, noting the crowd of newsmen, said to TIME'S Mandarin-speaking David Aikman: "You can't avoid them...