Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that, even in this drab age, the life of a spy can have its high points. A natty dresser who bought his clothes in Regent Street, Oleg was known as a big spender who, according to one restaurateur, "thought nothing of picking up an £80 [$192] tab." He had a wife and seven-year-old son in Moscow, but British newspapers linked him with at least five women in London?an Israeli student, a Czech student, two English secretaries and "a gorgeous Russian blonde,"?Irina Teplyakova, thirtyish and the wife of another Soviet official. Oleg and Irina...
...Sanskrit word that refers to the moral and spiritual consequences of our actions. There is a Karmic deficit here that Abbie should compensate Tom for. Abbie has made similar mistakes in the past, and we want to encourage him not to make them again." Abbie's tab for that offense...
...better deal: CHARTER FLIGHTS offer the cheapest fares but also involve the most restrictions (although some are frequently ignored). Any nontravel organization at least two years old can charter a plane and sell the seats at cost to members of at least six months standing. Average tab: $230. Most members of teachers, lawyers, fraternal or many other organizations qualify, and an ingenious travel agent can usually find some charter flight for almost anyone. Organizations with at least 40 travelers, but less than a full planeload can reserve space on regularly scheduled airlines for $277 per seat under a plan called...
...decades, the U.S. Air Force kept tab on unidentified flying objects in a project called Blue Book. Then, in 1969, the number of UFOs reported in U.S. skies sharply dwindled, and the Blue Book was closed. Why did the UFOs suddenly become scarce...
...judge from the outcry that followed the New Statesman's article, Britons will continue to insist on picking up the tab for their monarchy. Crossman himself said: "I am strongly pro-monarchy. The Queen is good at her job-she is better value for the money than the Church of England-and should get the rate for it." Better that, he went on, than "a Copenhagen monarchy cycling around the streets...