Sep 29th, 2008 · Here's a reminder for the next time you travel for business: don't forget your taxi receipt. A musician with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra got out of a cab, in Manhattan, and forgot her viola. The 18th century instrument was worth about $40,000. Taxi regulators used her receipt and GPS technology to figure out which cab she had been in. The instrument was returned safely.
Nov 8th, 2007 · What started as an aside in a longer story exploded into an Internet sensation. The question of whether the Clinton campaign left a tip at a restaurant in Iowa became blog material almost immedately. The Clinton campaign offers up a receipt to prove they paid for the meal, and insist that a $100 tip was left for wait staff.
Aug 31st, 2007 · This summer's movie season was the highest-grossing year in history, with box-office receipts totalling more than $4 billion.
Apr 16th, 2007 · Rep. Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, wants Congress to repeal a law that effectively bans online gambling by making it illegal for credit card companies to process online gaming receipts. The World Trade Organization rejected the law, enacted in 2006.
Aug 30th, 2006 · A New Zealand firm is betting on a U.S. market for a shopping cart that lets young children watch videos while their parents shop. Shaped like a car, the Cabco cart rents for $1, part of which goes to retailers like Wal-Mart and Publix, who are testing their popularity. Child-development experts are wary, but Cabco says offering customers the carts can add as much as $100,000 to a store's receipts.
Dec 12th, 2005 · The Chronicles of Narnia dominated box office receipts this weekend. The film relies heavily on digital effects for its spectacular images and action sequences, impossible to achieve using traditional film techniques -- but at a much greater cost. Alex Chadwick talks with Slate contributor Edward Jay Epstein about whether digital effects are ruining Hollywood.
Dec 2nd, 2005 · Most states are enjoying big gains in tax receipts this year. So far, many states are being cautious about committing the newfound money to ongoing programs or passing permanent tax cuts that could haunt them when fortunes change.
Jun 11th, 2005 · Wall Street Journal movie critic Joe Morgenstern analyzes why receipts are down in Hollywood, and why the recent Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith is representative of the trouble with current summer movies.