Word: tab
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system in which the right to fail is as enshrined as the right to succeed. Moreover, if Chrysler cannot make a U-turn and start generating the profits needed to pay back its loans, the U.S. taxpayer could get stuck with a portion of the $1.5 billion tab. Assessing the action of his colleagues, Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who is a leading advocate of keeping government out of the private sector, called the bill "the biggest mistake Congress has ever made...
...mosque's catacomb-like basement last week, but not before the incident had shaken the House of Saud to its sandy foundations. Most authorities are now convinced that the group, which numbered between 200 and 300, was trained and armed in Marxist South Yemen, and that the tab for the venture was picked up by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The Saudis also claimed that the young leader of the group, Mohammed al-Quraishi, a theology student who called himself the Muslim Mahdi (Messiah), had been killed in the fighting. A Saudi official declared last week that the objective...
...investment, Constantine did not start to mature until Saturday night. Harvard wound up paying the tab. His aggressive style simultaneously sparked his teammates and unglued the Crimson, whose goalie, Wade Lau, succumbed to scores in the final minute of each period...
...battery of computers with which delegates could summon up printouts on a bewildering array of information from more than 100 data banks. Among them: the Denver library's information bank, which stores pollution and land-use data; the U.S. Senate's information pool, named LEGIS, which keeps tab on the fate of legislative proposals; and a computerized reference guide known as the Bibliographic Retrieval System. Delegates had only to press a few buttons to plug into storehouses of information containing such items as the Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California vs. Allan...
...game, and many expected guests failed to show--including the members of the Syracuse club. "They seem to be a very nebulous club; we couldn't find their core," Rider says, and the Rochester contingent was left with the rain, the tent, and, it seems, the tab...