Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gosh! Shucks! Gee whiz! Jody and Ham a-settin' thar in the White House bitin' them nails and burpin' Tab while talkin' about folks who is "less eclectic philosophically" stirs the juices of us dung stampers in Wisconsin. Them is our kind of people...
...hearing an orchestra inside my head all along. And so I said, 'Don't kid yourself. If you want to hear it that way, then hear it that way. Be happy.' " The expenses of the tour (the cast and crew number 115 people, the tab for the orchestra alone is $40,000 a week) could eventually cost the three stars nearly $4 million. It is too early to tell whether they will get it back, let alone make a profit- or take a bath. But for openers in Detroit, Emerson looked as happy as a kid with...
...aides presented a reorganization blueprint to Jordan, they voiced doubts that the staff numbers could be kept down once the next election neared. Perhaps, they suggested, the President might concede that the totals could rise again. Replied Jordan as he chewed on the ice from his umpteenth glass of Tab: "Carter is constitutionally incapable of making a statement like that." Jordan has also balked at putting any more people under his own control. "I'd do better if there was just Landon Butler and me and two secretaries, instead of even the six or seven people I have...
Outside the office, "Sigi," as his friends called him, had a reputation as a swinger who liked pretty girls and fast cars, and usually picked up the tab on his visits to local nightspots. He showered his girl friends, who fondly called him der Rosenkavalier, with clothing, jewelry and champagne. No one thought it strange that Sigi was able to indulge such playboy tastes on his $790-a-month soldier's pay. After all, he was known to be a lottery addict, and had once boasted of winning...
...Keeping Tab. U.S. consumers, faced with up to $3.49-per-lb. price tags, have cut coffee drinking by some 20% over the past year. In Washington, the Commerce and Agriculture departments have taken steps to restrain price rises, present and future. Commerce plans to monitor domestic roasting and production costs monthly rather than quarterly. To forestall possible collusion on the part of producing countries to jack up prices, U.S. embassy Agriculture attaches will keep tab on coffee inventories throughout the world. The U.S. Government is considering the creation of a buffer stock of 20 million 132-lb. bags, starting...