Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his optimistic report on the lights, Rudolph was criticized by a number of councillors who charged that parking tickets drawn up by his department had caused police to tag automobiles for non-existent violations...
...price tag on foreign aid requested for fiscal 1966 is an all-time low of $3.38 billion, down from $3.51 billion requested last year-but more than the $3.25 billion that Congress granted. Nevertheless, the new program, said President Johnson, is "the lowest aid budget consistent with the national interest...
True to type, Single Girl longs to be chased as well as chaste. After a few rounds of parlor tag, it ends with a frenetic pursuit scene that slams the entire cast into fast cars and sends them caroming off to the airport, changing partners en route, bumping into things. All are understandably eager to get out of town, and their impulse to flee provides the film's first and only surge of audience identification...
Fadinq Mirages. For a price tag of $30 billion, or roughly 5% of the French gross national product over the next six years, Frenchmen will be buying a beefed-up conventional force and a total of 62 needle-nosed Mirage IV bombers to tote the Gaullist bombette at a relatively slow 1,200 m.p.h. over a range of 1 ,000 miles. When the Mirages fade into obsolescence around 1968-69, they will be supplanted by SSBS missiles (the sibilant stands for sol-sol-balistique-strategique, or ground-to-ground-ballistic-strategic), to be lodged in hard-base silos in France...
...expensive picture book is probably a fixed Christmas institution for the foreseeable future. As publishers recognize, its very size and expensiveness make it sell. Both price tag and poundage are an unarguably solid demonstration of the giver's regard. The presumed esthetic content is an implied compliment to the recipient's cultivation. Yet it can appear to be absorbed just by leafing through it; and duty done, the thing lends its own cachet as it lies there on the coffee table. Of course, for those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste...