Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...W.F.L. Keating took his mind off his lunch for a moment and calculated the value of his prize clients. He scribbled figures totaling $2.7 million on his napkin and held it up for his colleague to see. "You're kidding!" was the response. Keating pocketed his impromptu price tag and put the "ridiculous idea" out of mind...
...across the barren Mackenzie Valley and into the U.S. (see map). The pipeline could eventually provide some 2.25 billion cu. ft. of gas a day for customers in Midwestern and Pacific Coast states-about 3.6% of present U.S. consumption-and an equal volume for Canadians. Bearing a projected price tag of $5.7 billion, the pipeline would likely be the largest privately financed construction project ever undertaken. Consortium officials say that the gas line could be completed in 1979 if all goes well...
...Fallen and the Missing in the Yom Kippur War, containing the names of all 2,552 Israeli soldiers killed in action in October; the first 350,000 copies printed were quickly gone, and 150,000 more ordered. And in the Knesset, Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir set a price tag of $7.14 billion on the October war. He announced a new budget of $8.44 billion, nearly half of it for defense, and warned that Israel will have to borrow for years to come to cover war costs and maintain its security...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
...novels, proves quite an asset in this journal. He has a nose for those human quirks that override ideology. He notes that the clerks' coatroom at the South Vietnamese consulate in Paris is filled with mink coats. He notices that an officer is wearing an unauthorized third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky phrases of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Does one gasp or laugh? That...