Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sponsoring legislation to curb benefits for ex-Presidents and their families. Over the past three decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs...
Many of the newcomers are decaffeinated versions of a company's standard brands. Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion), the largest soft-drink producer, joined the trend last week by rolling out caffeine-free varieties of Coke, diet Coke and TAB in Denver (see above) and Salt Lake City. The Atlanta-based firm, which had only two colas (Coke and TAB) before last July, will now have a total of brand entries in the cola field...
...caffeine battles, of course, are merely the latest skirmishes in the ancient war between Coke and Pepsi. Coca-Cola, which makes Sprite, Fresca, Mello Yello and other brands in addition to Coke and TAB, leads all soft-drink producers, with some 36% of the total market. Pepsi brands, including Mountain Dew, have about 25%. But although regular Coke is still the bestselling soft drink, it has lost some ground to Pepsi since the early 1970s (see chart...
Gambling was an embarrassing analogy to Kush, whose No. 1 draft choice of 1982, Ohio State Quarterback Art Schlichter, ran up a reported six-figure tab with bookies and recently turned to the FBI for protection. Going 0-8-1 on the field last year in his first N.F.L. season, Kush is 0-9 this year in the Supreme Court, which decided that he would have to defend himself against charges stemming from a sideline assault case brought by a former punter at Arizona State. That incident four seasons ago ended Rush's prosperous 22-year college coaching career...
...Someone told me you get ulcers from living like this. I don't think Tab and salud is good...