Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works under Meese, and Richard Darman, a Baker choice, operate so closely with the troika, passing policy recommendations up and presidential instructions down, that the five in effect constitute a powerful group that has no name and no official existence. Fuller uses an elaborate computerized tracking system to keep tab on all issues moving through the White House machinery. Darman, who first suggested the Legislative Strategy Group, has made himself the master of all paper going to Reagan; he does the final edits on almost everything Reagan sees. On the wall of Barman's office in the White House basement...
...into the classrooms of Dade County public schools. Yet the budget cuts planned by the Reagan Administration are expected to shave refugee aid to Florida in this fiscal year, leaving the county with an added tab of $30 million for its unexpected guests...
...Cubans and their fellow Floridians. Dade County voters last year approved, 3 to 2, an ordinance that forbids the spending of its public funds to promote bilingualism. The bad blood has risen dramatically since the arrival of the Marielitos last year. Whites in particular resent picking up the tab of caring for the newcomers, but the animosity spills over on all Cubans. "I wonder who really upsets whites the most," says Monsignor Bryan Walsh, who ran a resettlement program for Cuban children in the 1960s, "the poor Cuban on welfare or the rich Cuban with three Cadillacs and a Mercedes...
...Conn., were treated to bags and bags of peanut and plain M and Ms because, as senior captain SUZANNE HASSEL says. "After weigh-in, anything is game for eating." The crew, which has 130 pounds as a maximum weight limit, usually is chaned to cans of tuna fish and Tab in the spring to meet the scale's demands--and that means few, if any, of the multi-colored treats if the poundage amount registered is not correct. Although Hassel avers that the squad is unusually light for this time of the year, she says that the boat that rowed...
...wound and horrify as they must. But there are other, less conventional strengths, each illuminating enough of the production to carry it past awkward moments. Lars Gunnar-Wigemark, snarling and slobbering as he narrates, inspires awe and terror even when he enters unexpectedly carrying a bright pink can of Tab; and Martha Hackett as Jenny, Macheath's favorite whore, provides the evening's most gripping moments in her two songs. --Amy E. Schwartz...