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...People get $15 tickets for double parking [in front of the store] and then bring them back to us," Levine says, adding that his store picks up the tab for three or four customer traffic citations a week...
Boston University, confronted with a 13% surplus of 496 new students, put up most of the spillover for two weeks at the Sheraton Boston. Eventually more conventional quarters were scrounged up, and B.U. swallowed a $200,000 tab. The University of California, Santa Cruz, counted some 200 freshmen above the normal entering class of 1,340. The school handled the crush in part with a freshly bulldozed trailer park, where some 30 students are currently making do with their mobile digs. The rest were shoehorned in everywhere from the gym, where ten to 20 students checked in every night...
Cuomo, Jackson, Ferraro and Mondale, the Four Horsemen who ride under the banner of the New Deal, promising enough things to enough people to get enough votes to win. They promise the nation a future containing all the better things of life, and will send the tab for that future to the welfare state...
...garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live sex at El Cid, and female impersonators at Finocchio...
...does Dan Rather mention the Iran-Iraq war almost parenthetically as the evening's fourth story--preceded by a Tab commercial--and only as a 20 second blurb? And why don't we find the horror stories of the battlefield massacres on the front page of The New York Times? Why is the story a short column on page A23, between a story on a municipal garbage strike and an ad for cheap shots...