Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sending off a distress signal. When a rescue was finally attempted, the sea and winds were so heavy that even the powerful tug could not pull the disabled giant back into the shipping lanes. One immediate result of the spill: a new determination by the French to keep closer tab on the increasingly heavy flow of oil traffic off their shores...
...homicidal aimlessness comes on very right for the times, but the world Scorcese has him encounter comes off very wrong. It seems that Scorcese figures that anyone who isn't down and out these days has turned into a plastic offspring of Madison Avenue. (Hence Cybil Shepard as the Tab-drinking campaign worker DeNiro falls in love with and the slick, wind-up presidential candidate he tries to assassinate.) So with nothing else but Barbies and Kens to identify with, Scorcese saves the film by throwing DeNiro into the arms of today's real myth-maker, the ever-violent tube...
...Some U.S. observers have suggested that Israel should be giving more thought to building additional fields within its own borders, but either way, the costs are enormous. To rebuild Etzion 25 to 40 miles to the northeast would cost at least $1 billion?a tab the Israelis would expect the U.S. to pick up as part of the peace package...
...down with Sally Field for over a year, and having finally braved the Bel-Air party circuit on Dinah's arm, he now shuns it. The wall-to-wall mirror on his bedroom ceiling nowadays often reflects a man reading poetry (Eliot and Frost, among others) and sipping a Tab. He is also a serious, intelligent student of film?old, exotic and by competitors. He will still shower gifts on his friends?though he admits he does not know how to accept them, or compliments, in return. Of course, he will still fill an actress's dressing room with flowers...
...same time protecting one of its priceless treasures. Interstate 93, a major north-south route that stretches from the greater Boston area toward the Canadian border, will indeed cut through the Notch. But instead of the usual four lanes required by Washington-which picks up 90% of the tab if the highway meets federal specifications-regulations will be relaxed. To prevent the widening that would have meant filling in lakes and going into the side of the mountain, the three-mile section running through the Notch will be merely an upgraded version of the two-lane roadway that already bisects...