Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...audience in its Wednesday prime-time slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news" shows like NBC's Speak Up America, it also turned TV executives on to the fact that low-budget programs produced without costly sets and high-priced talent could be hugely successful. While the tab for producing a half-hour sitcom might come to $300,000. the bill for an hour of reality programming may be $250,000 or less. Another spur to such shows has been the 2½-month actors' strike, which made the filming of dramas and sitcoms...
...more in Saudi Arabia. Private English-language schools there can cost as much as $5,000 a year for each child. The tax changes that finally went into effect in 1978 made it almost prohibitively expensive for independent American business men to work abroad and hiked the tab for companies that pick up their employees' expenses. Firms usually pay the extra tax, but the proceeds then become taxable income for the employees. ITT estimates that a $40,000-a-year executive can wind up paying taxes on $95,000 of gross income. The extra tax bill: about...
...good to last, and it did not. In July the tab at the supermarket checkout counter rose 1.6%, and wholesale food prices in August shot up 4.4%, the highest monthly jump in seven years. Moreover, prices are expected to keep right on going up for at least the next six months. Says Rodney Kite, director of agricultural forecasting at Evans Economics in Washington: "Food will be in the forefront of inflation the rest of this year. By December a pound of hamburger or chicken will cost 15% more than it did in June. Pork chops will be 20% higher." Otto...
...Olympiad. White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler last week sent the I.O.C. a letter objecting to that plan, but the committee plans to stand fast. Meanwhile, the local organizers of the 1984 Los Angeles Games submitted an upbeat report on their preparations and promised to pay the estimated tab of $347 million without U.S. Government aid. They could not have been too heartened, however, by a report from officials of this year's Lake Placid Winter Games, who said that they still have a debt of almost $8 million...
...million scandal involving expense-account fraud and kickbacks among field-unit managers. Pfeiffer, who once spent six months in a convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...