Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Island housewife who squandered a $30,000 trust fund and several months' mortgage payments on outrageously expensive outfits: "I felt I had nothing to give anyone. So I gave a fashion show." Men, on the other hand, favor electronic gadgetry and tools, and picking up the tab at meals. Notes Janet Damon, a psychotherapist in New York and author of a new book, Shopaholics (Price Stern Sloan; $16.95): "They try to boost their self-esteem by buying an image of power...
...negotiations which will take us further toward a bilateral reduction of conventional forces not just in Europe, but around the world. The US could also use this as an opportunity to reduce our share of funding for NATO forces and encourage our allies to pick up more of the tab, at a time when the bill seems to be shrinking...
Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. With the annual federal health-care tab at more than $140 billion and increasing at more than twice the rate of inflation, the overseer of Medicare and Medicaid will to , have to perform surgery to contain costs. Doctors are already howling over caps on fees, and the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, which found that billions of dollars are wasted annually on services that are not needed and do not work, has just recommended further cuts. The burgeoning long-term medical needs of an expanding elderly population further complicate...
Marguerite Gerstell, a lesbian candidate who dropped out in July after LoPresti received the endorsement of the Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Alliance, called LoPresti a political opportunist in a letter to the editor of the Cambridge Tab last week...
Mike McDonough, a Lantana free-lancer, counters by recalling the night he watched an intrepid Brit scale the facade of a hotel in Freeport, the Bahamas, to bang on Howard Hughes' window. "That is the closest anyone ever came ((to Hughes))," he claims proudly. Ace Tab Photog Jimmy Leggett, a wiry Scot, remembers a "scheme to drill a hole down into Hughes' coffin to get a picture of his face." Another plot, in the '60s, involved renting a submarine to surprise Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past...