Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the obliviousness of the very rich, Harriman almost never carried any cash. Left stuck with the tab, young Foreign Service officers began calling Harriman "the world's richest cheapskate." That was perhaps the mildest of the many epithets he had to endure. At various times he was dubbed a playboy by the press, a traitor to his class by Wall Street and a Communist sympathizer by the Republican right. In history's verdict, he will be better remembered as a statesman who served his country with distinction...
...then, did we get such a tab for toting around a President? Unlike a Roman noble, Ronald Reagan didn't even ask for the new plane. He loves the one he's got ("better than any office I have"). But by 1990 the 707s will become almost extinct by factory decree. Spare parts will be scarce, the engines too noisy for flight rules. Reagan's 707 has 1,024,897 miles and 42 countries on it. A lobbying effort for this big bird was mounted back in Lyndon Johnson's time by the Air Force, the Secret Service, the White...
...many companies can reap handsome profits by giving away everything they produce. But in the newspaper business, an enterprising group of publishers is doing just that. By relying solely on advertising revenues, their papers prosper without charging readers a cent. From the suburban Boston Tab (circ. 150,000) to Berkeley's East Bay Express (circ. 45,000), free newspapers, most of them weeklies, are finding lucrative editorial niches and providing a sprightly alternative to established dailies...
Free papers often try to complement rather than compete with big-time rivals. The Newton, Mass.-based Tab, which gives away most of its copies but also sells a few thousand on newsstands every week for 25 cents, leaves foreign policy and national affairs to the prestigious Boston Globe. Says Tab Editor Russel Pergament: "The key to our success is that we're relentlessly local." In most cases, free-paper editors carefully tailor their stories to readers' tastes. Berkeley's East Bay Express, which operates out of the former headquarters of the Black Panthers, caters to young urban professionals...
...wings. Indeed, the ancient Romans used geese as guards. The web-footed sentinels are said to have saved Rome by raising a noisy commotion as the Gauls approached the city walls in 390 B.C. What is more, the entire goose patrol will cost the Army about half the annual tab for a single trained guard...