Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another 10 days! You got the July Fourth weekend -- what do you think is going to happen over that time? A lot of meetings. You can name 10 possible suitors for CBS: all the studios that could afford to pick up a 5 or 6 billion dollar tab, telephone companies, how many is that right there...
...submits some of the most meticulously detailed expense reports prepared by any Congress member. Certainly he had no need for the relatively piddling sums said to be involved. His power over taxes made lobbyists eager to curry his favor, and he gladly -- and legally -- let them pick up the tab for steak dinners at Morton's in Washington and golf games all over the world. Reports put his holdings of stocks, real estate and other assets at anywhere between $700,000 and $2.3 million. Longtime political observers note, though, that urban-machine politicians -- and at least some members of Congress...
...what does the stuff taste like? Some say "somewhere between Pepsi and Sprite." Others: "a cross of Sunkist and Tab." The etymylogically inclined: "about halfway between 'good...
...Barbados. The stuff of romance, yes. But in the Capitol, it is the essence of lobbying. Lobbying mixes people of the same interests and temperament, adds good food, fine wine and the occasional getaway -- and also produces relationships. And just because one of the companions always picks up the tab doesn't make the liaisons meaningless. Indeed, in most cases, the links are all too serious...
...inflation but the checkoff hasn't, so its value has consistently declined (taxpayer participation has hovered around 20% for the past decade). By 1992, the amount raised, $153,191,152, was barely enough to cover election costs. Officials expect the new, improved checkoff will easily cover 1996's tab...