Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provision that would have increased on October 1 the price-support level for milk to $11.10 for each 100 pounds. It would raise consumer costs by a few cents a gallon at most and cost the government $145 million by congressional estimate. The Agriculture Department put the price tag at $300 million...
...House moved to deflect criticism, adopting a compromise version sponsored by Reps. Steve Gunderson (R-Wis.) and Tim Penny (D-Minn.). It would go ahead with the increase but only for April through June next year. Supporters said it would knock $30 million off the price tag...
Even without the intervention of gifted chroniclers like Roger Angell and Thomas Boswell, each baseball career is a study in literature. An ironic short story might be apt for the rookie whose only appearance in a big league box score comes at the tag end of a lost season. A sonnet would be fitting commemoration for those human meteors who flash across the big league sky and then flame out, their promise unkept. My four graybeard survivors, of course, deserve nothing less than full-length novels, sprawling Victorian epics that carry them from apple-cheeked anticipation to adult acclaim...
What makes the choice so masterful is that Dukakis has crossed party lines to snag one away from the Republicans. Say goodbye to that Massachusetts liberal tag. With Stewart, Dukakis can now lure voters back to the Democrats...
Among other Americans, however, the idea of a manned Mars mission is gaining momentum, despite the estimated $100 billion price tag for the undertaking. The venture has been endorsed by a dozen major publications, ranging from the New York Times to the New Republic. In a recent full-page advertisement in the Washington Post, the 125,000-member Planetary Society urged support for a manned mission. The ad listed the names of a glittering array of such prominent Americans as Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Utah Senator Jake Garn, Nobel Laureate Physicist Hans Bethe and Notre Dame's former president...