Word: tab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...section, were carefully following a series of little-noticed events and discoveries that are leading scientists closer to achieving a critical breakthrough: the ability to predict, and possibly even control, earthquakes. Golden, who wrote this week's cover package and Jaroff, who edited it, have both been keeping tab on seismological research for several years. "We'd covered each advance piecemeal," Jaroff says. "Finally," he adds, "it seemed that the right time had come to pull the research together and let our readers know that reliable earthquake forecasts are nearly at hand...
Apart from such federal-state friction, many local governments are growing restive in the 17 states where they contribute to the nonfederal share of the most expensive welfare program: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (in the other states, the state government picks up the full nonfederal tab). In New York, where the AFDC bill is split 50% federal, 25% state and 25% local, officials of Oneida and Orange counties simply decided to stop contributing. In California's Plumas County, an impoverished timber area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, local welfare costs have risen by $60,000 from...
...invited half the first-class passengers to be his guests at the game. A stewardess, tickled by his flattery ("Hey, baby, you look great"), had bestowed a farewell kiss, and a leading Kansas City lawyer had offered to drive Finley to Royals Stadium. That saved a $20 cab tab, and Finley was quick to accept...
...footnote, however, the report warned that "there may actually have been more 'mike and wire' operations than the commission has otherwise been able to document." In one case in the late 1940s and early '50s, the CIA used agent surveillance, wiretaps and bugs to keep tab for eight years on an employee who was suspected of having contacts with Communist sympathizers; he eventually was fired. In the late 1960s the CIA cut through the walls of an employee's apartment to plant seven microphones; no evidence of disloyalty was found...
...manager based in New York. When she put the idea to General Manager Schuyler Chapin two years ago, he replied: "Go away and don't bother me. That will cost millions." It did cost that, $2.5 million to be precise, but Hillyer found someone to pick up the tab: the Nagoya-based Chubu Nippon Broadcasting Co., which decided to sponsor the tour in honor of its 25th anniversary...