Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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London leads the world in pricy hotel rooms, typically $192, but not in everything. A three-course dinner for four at a leading Paris restaurant will run $525. And drinks and entertainment at a Tokyo nightclub can produce a tab of $486 for four. Surprisingly, Lagos, Nigeria, is the world's fourth most expensive city to visit. The bill for a week's rental of a moderate-priced car there is $603, plus 83? per mile...
...Drug manufacturers are worried about legal repercussions should a drug user develop a rare side effect unmentioned in a PPI. Though the FDA figures that the cost of preparing, storing and distributing leaflets would add only an average of 6¼? to each prescription, professional groups reckon the extra tab at 22? to 35?. Pharmacists are afraid that the leaflets will provoke a rash of time-consuming questions from customers. Some say that they may be put in the uncomfortable position of seeming to second-guess the doctors. Gripes a Virginia pharmacist: "If the medical profession were doing...
...billed $400 for damage caused when students threw bottles at the Science Center screen during a showing of the movie "Animal House" last month, Donahue said. In addition, the $950 debt of the Film Studies Council was divided among house film societies, adding $110 to the Quincy group's tab...
...because the author has set her novel specifically, almost immovable, in time and place. The Gowers live in Baltimore of the late '60s and '70s, and each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty details of time and space that...
...writers were positively pampered in Milan. A leading restaurant catered all their lunches, and the designers picked up the tab. In the evenings, top dragons were wined and dined lavishly by the big fashion houses. Not surprisingly, the reporters were beguiled by their Italian hosts. The first sentence filed by Bernadine Morris of the New York Times: "For the people who gave you the Renaissance, organizing a week of fashion shows is like child's play." Some writers found all the exotica useful. Said the Washington Post's Nina Hyde: "I like to write about what the buyers...