Word: tab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Star and the National Enquirer if they don't want to. So it has banned those and other tabloids from one of its cashier lines (a sign reads TABLOID-FREE CHECKOUT LANE). If the innovation is a success, Harris Teeter, the chain that owns the supermarket, may establish tab-free zones in its 132 other stores...
...means sure how accommodating Japan will be this week when foreign and finance ministers from the Group of Seven industrial nations meet in Tokyo to put together a new package of aid to Russia. Japan no doubt will participate, but how much of the tab -- possibly $30 billion -- it can be encouraged to pick up is questionable. Even aside from its unresolved dispute with Moscow about the Kurile Islands, Tokyo has viewed funds poured into the chaotic Russian economy as money thrown away...
...like laughing at Americans, and this production gives us ample opportunity to chortle at some completely pathetic specimens. For all their intellectual cultivation, the professors squabble loudly over the tab at restaurants, blatantly betray their sexual indiscretions and generally embarass themselves. The audience cringes at their sycophantic adoration of all things British...
...rule of the day -- clearer is better. Manufacturers of all sorts of products are convinced that consumers equate transparent with natural and healthy. Result: products like clear dishwashing liquid and clear roll-on deodorant. Soft-drink titan Coca-Cola has invented a colorless version of its classic diet soda Tab, while rival Pepsico has struck back with "Crystal" equivalents of regular and Diet Pepsi, as sweet as ever but clear as water...
...usual, some of the best characters have little to do with the plot. Brian Martin does a terrific job as Tess Pattern, a wovewy journalist with a speech impediment. She and Tab Lloyd (Andrew Howard), a 15th-century Geraldo Rivera-Maury Povich type, dig away at the sleazy side of the kingdom, threatening to broadcast everyone's dirty laundry. (Political Subtext...