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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Pentagon brought these questions to the fore last week by disclosing that it would shortly be asking Congress for a pile of new funds -- perhaps $20 billion -- to maintain the American forces confronting Iraq. Word promptly leaked that the total tab might be as high as $30 billion in fiscal 1991, which began on Oct. 1. That would be double the estimate of $15 billion made only two months...
Under the proposal, the council will pay for one-third of the total costs during the three-month period, with the administration picking up the rest of the tab...
...late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only across the table that you would not want to face such fellows. That, as one old female player told Holden, "is a tough way to make an easy living...
Hear ye! Hear ye! A life fit for a queen does not come cheap. The cost of running the British royal household this year will total 56 million pounds, or $109 million, according to an official report. The tab includes $139,000 for libations and $122,850 for laundry. Most of the funds go to maintain four . palaces, three planes, two helicopters, a train and the yacht Britannia, while remunerations for members of the royal family total $20.3 million, including $15.4 million for the Queen...
Western Division W L T L.A. Raiders>Tab>5 1 0 Kansas City 4 2 0 Denver 2 4 0 Seattle 2 4 0 San Diego 2 4 0 National Conference...