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...which has fallen sharply over the past four years. Businessmen, hotelkeepers and restaurateurs are clamoring for funds to complete the airport that the Cubans were building at Point Salines. Grenadians say the airport is necessary to boost tourism, but so far the U.S. has balked at picking up a tab that could go as high as $90 million. The airport presents an uncomfortable irony. When it was being built by the Cubans, the U.S. condemned it as being essentially for military use and ridiculed the notion that Grenada's motive was to develop tourism. Now the U.S. is being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When War Winds Down | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...completion of the plant, says Bechtel, would raise the total to a staggering $3.1 billion. While the utilities ponder whether to continue with Zimmer, interest charges on loans taken out as long ago as 1971 keep piling up. Each day's delay means $500,000 added to the tab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A $1.6 Billion Nuclear Fiasco | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

Equipped to make french fries and frappes items which are "gravy" for most grills which get by on hamburgers and bagels. Quincy enhances its appeal by offering credit. Students can charge their snacks and pay their tab when they are billed once a week...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

...Sachs & Co., put the estate's taxable value at $90.9 million and calculated the taxes owed at $48.7 million. The IRS, on the other hand, said that according to its evaluation of the estate, the heirs owed taxes of $609 million. The Government added $305 million to that tab in the form of fraud penalties for willful undervaluation of Newhouse's holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auditing the Grand Acquisitor | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...Luce. As she recalls life with the smart set, Hobson falls into a modish, woman's magazine tone in which even problems sound like boons. In 1942 her idea of dire indebtedness was owing rent to the Vincent Astor offices for her East Side apartment and a clothing tab to Bergdorf s. For all her social concern, political events are sometimes invoked as if they were backdrops for her personal dramas, as in a rendezvous with Ingersoll: "When he arrived, my rehearsed words went out the window ... For in the world at large ... all ordinary life seemed changed overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Making Do | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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