Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bite on an average black-and-white TV set increased by $8, to $50, pushed up the total purchase tag to just above $200. The government's cut on a $4,860 diamond bracelet is now $1,620 v. $1,080 in pre-Jenkins times; not surprisingly, the jewelers passed the increases along to the customers. The new $1,270 tag on British Motors' Austin Mini reflects a $48 rise in the old $233 purchase tax. Not forgetting the rich, Jenkins also imposed a new one-year levy on investment income, creating a situation in which...
...predicament springs from Johnson's 1965 guns-and-butter policy, under which he vastly stepped up the Viet Nam war effort and expanded the Great Society programs without making a corresponding effort to raise funds. The war was supposed to cost $10 billion a year. Instead, the price tag jumped to $20 billion, then to its current $30 billion. "Our country is overcommitted at home and abroad," warned Robert Roosa in 1966, not long after he resigned as Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Even that year, Johnson might well have persuaded Congress to enact more taxes. Instead...
Meanwhile, in Newton, family and friends of Mrs. Faith Deertag gathered for her funeral. Husband Axel told reporters she died happily. "When we learned she had only minutes to live," Deer-tag recalled, "Faith turned to me and said, 'My death will not have been in vain if only this precious heart of mine can beat for another living creature...
...have the money to pay for them, and are hesitant to commit any money to maintenance when we have no idea how much that will be." The money would presumably come then from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget, and last week Mosteller put an approximate price tag on the console plan: $40,000 for a year's total expenses in all the houses...
...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...