Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant at Morón ($75 million) and an industrial complex of a steel mill and a 300,000 kw. hydroelectric plant being hacked out of the desolate countryside near ore-rich Cerro Bolivar. Also built or building are railroads, schools and housing. But many projects are notably frivolous. Item: a $30-million cable-car sightseeing system, with oxygen-equipped cars, to the top of 15,380-ft. Mount Espejo...
...Enduring Necessity. In a sense, the compromise line constitutes its own argument for a continued hard line based upon a realistic assessment of what is weakness and what is strength. Item: the Soviet satellite countries, as a present element of Soviet weakness, are an element of NATO strength. Item: Germany, no bauble to be traded off by somebody else's ambassadors, is now the most promising evolving element of the total NATO power. Item: disarmament talks, when conducted with excess optimism (e.g., the 1957 discussions), can create the complacent type of climate in which Soviet geopoliticians and missilemen...
...losses from $225,000 a month to $40,000 a month, and estimated that it would lose no more than $200,000 in 1958. "Given a reasonable amount of time, we would have had an independent and profitable enterprise," protested Stern, who also publishes the thriving New Orleans Item (circ. 105,560). Tom Stern had a six-year option to buy 50% of Owner McCloskey's Daily News stock (for less than $5,000), but, says he, "only four days before the sale, McCloskey told us that he was not impatient, that he would go along for another year...
...make "any room a private chapel," the devout may keep their rosaries in a Musical Madonna, which "glows softly with comforting concealed light," and upon opening the rosary drawer, "plays Gounod's Ave Maria." Another item for the room: a plaque of Jesus' head, "breathtaking in its vibrant lifelike color . . . created so that the eyes and face of Jesus follow you in any direction...
...Triviality, even more sinister in its complexity, describes another absurdity of Organization. This law states that "the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum (of money) involved." It is, for example, easier to pass an appropriation for $10,000,000 than for $57.62. The conclusion is obvious: Think...