In 1777, Cook wrote that the word taboo ... has a very comprehensive meaning; but, in general, signifies that a thing is forbidden.... When any thing is forbidden to be eat, or made use of, they say, that it is taboo. Cook was in Tonga at the time, and so it is the Tongan form tabu that is the source of the English word taboo.
Annual Prices. Residents of California pay an annual total price of $34,377 to attend University of California Davis on a full time basis. This fee is comprised of $11,220 for tuition, $14,571 room and board, $1,576 for books and supplies and $2,731 for other fees.
Tuition at the University of California, Berkeley, was about $700 a year back in the 1970s. Today, U.C. Berkeley students have to fork over around $15,000 per year. That's a 2,000 percent increase.