Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saving measure is ridiculous--regardless of the merits of the plan itself. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan calls the belief that the health care plan will save money "a fantasy." You simply cannot insure millions of currently uninsured people without significant cost, much of it on the government's tab...
...Angeles -- Absorbed by his conveniently timed world tour and fighting off accusations of child abuse, Michael Jackson has scrapped a music video he was to make to promote the fall movie Addams Family Values. Jackson was supposed to pick up the tab, at least some of which was already spent. Initial reports put the cost at $1 million, but sources familiar with the production have told Time that the proposed video budget was actually closer to $5 million. Says an Addams insider: "It wasn't just a clip; it was supposed to be a 10-minute film...
...miring themselves in treachery. But Smith has written a story in which all the characters, not excluding the first-person narrator, are stupid, mean and boring. They are jerks, irredeemable fools, and if one sat down next to you at a bar and started talking, you would pay your tab and move on. The point is not that every crime story needs a hero -- Elmore Leonard writes brilliantly and almost exclusively about career wrongos -- but that at least somebody in a novel should be worth the reader's attention. Not even your friendly neighborhood parole board would be interested...
...target such scams to lower the cost of national health. Perhaps it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage to all Americans, including the 37 million ) currently uninsured, by generating savings within the country's unwieldy health system rather than...
Mohammed says Dartmouth provided round-trip airfare to visit the campus. Notre Dame as well as some state colleges, offered to pick up the tab for a visit, as well as a full scholarship...