Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush's campaign paid $43,500 in a silent auction to rent prime space at next month's Iowa straw poll. "They took the bait," chuckled an adviser to Lamar Alexander. But Bush is laughing now. Rather than dip into his campaign chest, he had six donors cover the tab. Too clever, says Steve Forbes' team, which charges that the end run is a violation of campaign laws that prohibit individuals from giving more than $1,000 to a candidate. The Bush folks say that since the money went to the Iowa Republican Party, they broke no rules. Perhaps that...
...Most Likely to Pick Up the Tab For: Nick J. Rahall (D., W.Va.), who owes more than $70,000 on four credit cards...
...finally, in terms of budget, mini. These days an action extravaganza with computer-generated special effects can run up a $120 million tab; often what all those computers generate is a runaway budget. But this summer's two dead-cert hits are the Mike Myers parody Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Adam Sandler's Big Daddy, each of which cost only $30 million. "Even if your comedy has the biggest star in the world--Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy--it's still more economical than a gigantic effects movie," says Amy Pascal, president of Columbia Pictures, which...
...singing, it's good enough, though no better than that. She sounds like a reasonably talented boy soprano who accidentally swallowed half a tab of human growth hormone. Alas, even the most mature-sounding teenage voices are too physically fragile to stand up to ruthless exploitation, and Church's is already afflicted with a wobbly vibrato that has TOO MUCH, TOO SOON stamped all over it. If she continues to pump it out night after night, the only place she'll be singing Cio-Cio-San is in the shower...
...Most Likely to Pick Up the Tab For: Nick J. Rahall (D., W.Va.), who owes more than $70,000 on four credit cards...