Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well. The audience was an undercover cop who not only didn't recognize the singer but also arrested him for performing a "lewd act." To add insult to arrest, Michael had to suffer the advice of his frequent taunter Boy George, who wrote in a tab: "When push comes to shove, we are sisters under the skin." Boy was right. On Friday night Michael expressed regret for the embarrassing incident and admitted on CNN that he is in a relationship with a man. Asked why he was outing himself now, Michael said, "I've already kind of done that, haven...
Landmark alumnus Walter Plywaski, a Colorado electronics engineer who took on the company after his daughter ran up a $3,000 tab on courses, thinks Erhard is still pulling the strings. Says he: "Erhard is like the Cheshire Cat. He has gone away, but the smile is there, hanging over everything." Rosenberg says his brother is not and never has been involved in Landmark. Steven Pressman, author of a scathing 1993 biography of Erhard, calls that slick corporate maneuvering: "They've gotten out of the yoke of Werner because he became their worst...
Compared to the $61 billion Gulf War, of course, an extra few hundred million -- mostly for extra sorties, bigger fuel bills and some "imminent danger pay" for 30,000 U.S. troops -- seems cheap. But in 1991, international contributions brought the U.S. tab down to $7.4 billion. And however thankful Kofi Annan was for that "credible military threat," President Clinton can't start passing the hat this year until all those soldiers actually do something...
Things might get worse. The government, which spent $30 million in taxpayers' money on the Teamsters' last election, will require the union to fund the next one, probably in the spring. It will also send the Teamsters the tab for its abortive investigation into the fund raising of front-runner JAMES P. HOFFA. As a former officer said, the government has done what the Mob couldn't do: bankrupt the Teamsters...
...Starr's success is strictly Triple-A and hasn't made it out of Little Rock. CNN ran a sympathetic piece on all the Clinton little fish who've squandered their meager salaries on legal fees after getting nicked by one of Starr's subpoenas. George Stephanopoulos' $85,000 tab drove him to the second-oldest profession: punditry...