Word: tab
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...befuddled baby on our cover drew some attention, not all of it adoring. Pondering the array of entities that might eventually prey upon the future citizen, a wary Virginian suggested, "The baby should also be worrying about the politicians who are ever willing to run up a tab on its yet-to-be-issued credit card." "I'm sure there are those who appreciate your parental concern," conceded a Californian who took offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just...
...dollars to the victims' families--in particular, the families of fire fighters and police officers. But overall, the nearly $2 billion in charity money is chump change compared with the cash that will flow out of government coffers. There is no limit to the federal fund, but the tab is likely to be triple the size of the charity pot. And while charity funds are doled out to a vast pool of people, including businesses hurt by the attacks, the government money will go exclusively to the injured and to families of the deceased...
...timing couldn't have been worse. When Jeremy Johnson discovered that someone had applied for a couple of credit cards in his name and had run up a $6,000 tab, it was late September and law-enforcement agencies were busy tracking down terrorists. Johnson, 31, a production assistant at a cable-channel website, called his local precinct in Brooklyn and was told the N.Y.P.D. was so swamped, the detectives couldn't do anything unless he had the perpetrator's name and address...
...around-the-clock city with half a dozen bustling night markets, a shiny new 24-hour mall, and an educated, jaded and demanding population of young professionals. In these girdle-tightening times, it's also refreshingly affordable. The battered New Taiwan dollar makes a dinner bill resemble the tab for a light snack in Hong Kong. Getting there doesn't break the bank, either: I found a weekend package from Hong Kong for less than $200 and set off after work to see what the fuss is about...
After one final rhyme we arrive in Central Square and ditch the car. A semi-legal parking job, but since when were Cambridge cops picky? (A handful of parking tickets should have told him: always.) And wouldn’t The Crimson pick up the tab...