Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came across well, that the tide was already turning. He did even better in the furious flap over a Reagan-Bush debate the Saturday night before the primary. Reagan had challenged Bush to a one-on-one debate, sponsored by the Nashua, N.H., Telegraph, then agreed to pay the tab and artfully invited in four other candidates, Anderson, Baker, Crane and Dole. The Telegraph refused to change the rules for the debate, despite Reagan's angry protests, and a thoroughly flustered Bush supported the newspaper. The other candidates then charged out, accusing Bush of silencing them. The absurd scene made...
...debate on Jan. 29, and the Nashua Telegraph (circ. 25,604) agreed to sponsor it. Two days before the debate, however, the Federal Election Commission ruled that the paper's sponsorship amounted to an il legal political contribution. Reagan offered to split the $3,500 tab with Bush. Bush refused, so Reagan paid...
...just after an exhausting performance, the star brims with energy. She hugs well-wishers and exults at the surprise appearance of a California friend. Wiping her damp ginger hair away from her forehead, she smiles easily, deep lines creasing the corners of her famous large brown eyes. Sipping a Tab, she jokes about an opening-night telegram sent by Actor Edward Asner (Lou Grant): NICE TO KNOW ALL THOSE DANCING LESSONS HAVE PAID OFF AT LAST. When one visitor notes how plain her dressing room is, Mary Tyler Moore laughs. "I've had beautiful dressing rooms in terrible shows...
...member entourage also drew freely from this pharmacy-"if the need arose." But Nichopoulos is unsure who was getting what: "I have no records at all." -Prescriptions meant for others were usually written in Presley's name because he felt compelled to pick up the tab. Once, though, before a 1977 Hawaii tour, Nichopoulos wrote ten prescriptions (550 tablets) for himself, then gave the drugs to Presley. Said Dr. Nick: "I felt if I charged him for the medication, his father would blow a gasket." - Nichopoulos, who said he acted like a brother, father and counselor to his patient...
...price. He would have seen the government hospitals and clinics found in every small town. He would have seen that in late 1978 the price of bread, tea, sugar, and other basic necessities was the same as 15 years before, because the government picked up three-fourths of the tab...