Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie moguls can't do business without a cigarette in their mouth." Such reasoning does not satisfy restaurant owners. Vito Sasso, proprietor of the romantic Romeo and Juliet, argues that he too has foreign customers, citing one wealthy visitor who orders several $500 bottles of wine for a dinner tab of $4,000 -- which adds up to a month's rent. "He won't come in anymore because he can't smoke," moans Sasso. "That's like doubling my rent...
...four Los Angeles police divisions that patrol South Central. Though these outposts represent only 22% of the department's 18 divisions, they handled 44% of the city's 831 homicides last year. South Central residents are so fearful that many have expressed willingness to pay the estimated $148 annual tab for the average homeowner...
...electronic age, reporters backpack a heavier load. A network correspondent must lead a safari of a producer and camera and sound technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will be closing down -- Warsaw, Bangkok and Seattle. But in a business where personalities win ratings and ratings bring profits, Sawyer wins in a walk...
Each year, several hundred athletes in major sports visit Harvard for a weekend, with the tab picked up by a special fund contributed by alumni...
...spent days roaming the streets of Moscow trying to formulate some kind of plan. For two days straight I sat at a corner table and ran up a tab at Boris' House of Borscht. Finally, delirious from lack of sleep and too much beet soup, I was struck by an odd yet wonderful idea: to manipulate the minds of the TV viewing public by means of devious politically-oriented programming...