Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause a tab with the caller's number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from an abandoned exercise cycle and at right...
...million there (to resettle in Florida). Last week the sheik's profligacy earned him a new bit of screwball notoriety. The Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., claimed that Fassi and his 75-person retinue had not paid their room and board for more than two months. The tab: $1,475,516.34. The hotel called Hollywood police-most of the department once worked part-time for the sheik-who arrested him on a felony fraud charge. Sheik Fassi cooled his royal heels in jail for six hours, waiting for a bail bondsman to put up $1,000. "What...
...movies' sophisticated special effects. They can also point to a recent Variety story showing that the average cost of making a Hollywood movie, which had doubled since 1977, actually declined this year (from $9.6 million to $9.4 million). Of the early summer hits, none ran up a tab of more than $20 million. Star Trek II, which has matched its predecessor's early torrid pace, was made for $11 million, one-fourth the cost of the original; the sequel returned its production cost to Paramount within ten days of release...
...federal onslaught on national aid programs seems certain to jeopardize the University's policy by forcing Harvard to pick up an ever greater share of the aid tab in years to come. We can only hope that the University will continue to give equal access in admissions the heavy weight it declined to accord to the morally imperative loan ban and the academically crucial Fogg wing...
...hundreds of pay-per-view attractions each month that could turn a video freak into an unintentional deadbeat. In conjunction with the Dallas city council, Warner-Amex has discussed setting a debt ceiling for customers. In Columbus, Warner-Amex officials already have a plan for cable-holies. When the tab exceeds $25 extra in a given month, they "give you a call as a friendly reminder," says one W-A official...