Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congress's megabuck travel tab...
Last August, Senators Paula Hawkins, Jake Garn and Frank Lautenberg visited the Far East. Had they flown first-class in commercial planes, their tab would have been about $30,000. Instead, they used an Air Force jet on which they could bring along spouses and assorted aides. The highflying cost: $244,013. When Congressman James Howard of New Jersey went to Ireland, he had the State Department arrange a dinner at Dublin's most expensive restaurant. The bill: $1,900. Most traveled was Congressman Robert Badham, a California Republican, who spent almost three months touring 24 countries...
...just completed what it called a victorious five-week invasion of Angola in pursuit of SWAPO forces. But the costs of the military campaign, as well as of South Africa's continued occupation of Namibia in defiance of the U.N., had simply become too high, he explained. The tab this year...
...that you probably cannot afford to go skiing in the first place. So it seems, anyway, to skiers who dropped out of the lift lines a few years ago to start careers and have children, or simply to survive the recession. It is a jolt to realize that the tab for a week of skiing at a major resort is now roughly the cost of a small used...
Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the sys tem's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant...