Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Happily, NBC's tab "Dateline" resisted the maudlin nightgeist, and accentuated the political in a jail-house interview with Whitewater convict Susan McDougal. Ken Starr sent her to the pokey, she claimed, "because I refused to lie for him." Another bombshell: McDougal's husband Jim came to her from Starr with an offer of freedom if she'd testify to having an affair with Clinton, she maintains. "Bill would never tell anyone to lie," she insisted,wide-eyed. And then the crowd-pleasers: "I know this is bad for the country...Kenneth Starr has become Jerry Springer...It's time...
...Congress tightened up on most giftgiving. But the legislators left a loophole you could fly a Concorde through: outsiders can pick up the tab for trips connected with "official" duties. And so many official duties need doing in places we all want to be in. And, ooh, the facts that need finding. An electric-power association believed the best way to inform members of Congress about utility rates was to send a dozen of them, with staff, floating through the Grand Canyon, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Utah Senator Bob Bennett and his staff logged $39,684 in paid...
Picture yourself as a famous, no-nonsense Congresswoman, married to the man who founded TIME magazine. Somebody gives you a small tab of paper, you happily lick it and you're gone. That's what happened in 1960 when CLARE BOOTHE LUCE--playwright, socialite, anticommunist and wife of Henry Luce--turned on, tuned in and dropped LSD with her husband. Luce's handwritten acid diaries were made public this month, 10 years after her death, as stipulated in her will. Among her Jim Morrisonesque musings: "Capture green bug for future reference," "Feel all true paths to glory lead...
Neglectful caregivers are preying not only on elderly residents but also on American taxpayers. More than $45 billion in government funds, mostly from Medicare and Medicaid, is pumped into nursing homes annually, an amount that comes to nearly 60% of the national tab for such eldercare. In order to pocket a larger slice of the federal stipend, many nursing homes--largely for-profit enterprises--provide a minimal level of care, if that...
...level teachers. "They have plenty of money," he snarls, with characteristic bluntness. "You can give these people $500 million. They'll piss it away." Baltimore's high special-ed costs come on top of the fact that Congress originally intended the Federal Government to pay 40% of the tab for educating handicapped children. In Baltimore last year, the Federal Government picked up less than 4%. "There's all this talk about unfunded mandates," says Robert Slavin, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk. "This is a classic...