Word: tab
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...each, and with their limited predictive abilities, only a few are performed. Still, they raise critical questions for any woman who tests positive. Should she undertake a pre-emptive strike against possible cancer with radical measures like mastectomy and chemotherapy? And if so, will insurers pick up the tab? In the absence of any firm reimbursement policies, says Dr. Ellen Clayton, a pediatrician and lawyer at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., "I think you'd have to be nuts to let anybody know [about these genes...
...Fraze found himself with a can of beer and no can, opener-one of life's major annoyances at the time. The solution came to him "just like that" one sleepless night. In 1963, Fraze, the founder of Dayton Reliable Tool Co., obtained the patent for a removable pull-tab opener for the tops of cans. Continental Can Co. created a nonremovable tab 16 years later...
...Smokers familiar with their pushers' legendary financial acumen shouldn't be too surprised to get stuck with the tab. But if they cheered at all when Sen. John McCain's $516 billion settlement bill died this year -- largely because of a virulent industry ad campaign that attacked the "tax-and-spend" $1.10 increase -- they ought to be a little peeved that this time the taxes are coming from their own side. Of course that hasn't stopped Philip Morris stock from its steady runup -- in a smoker's blood, nicotine generally wins out over outrage...
...Federal Government, for example, has spent $130 million so far to clean up the Alamosa River in Colorado, contaminated with cyanide and heavy metals from a gold mine abandoned in 1992. The final tab is expected to reach at least $160 million. The government will eventually spend more than $100 million to clean up a site in Wayne, N.J., contaminated with radioactive waste. The company has agreed to chip in $32 million. The government estimates it will cost as much as $200 million to scrub up a zinc-smelter site in Palmerton, Pa. The tab for cleaning up radioactive waste...
...water comes not from a single subsidy but from an accumulation of subsidies. Over the years, taxpayers have funded the vast infrastructure that provides the water--dams, reservoirs, canals, locks, pumping stations, hydroelectric turbines, such as Washington State's massive Columbia Basin Project. The Federal Government picks up the tab, then bills farmers a sum equal to only a small portion of the actual cost of construction. Then it gives them 40 to 50 years to pay off their share--interest free. Estimates of the total irrigation subsidy since 1902 range from $18 billion to more than $75 billion, with...