Word: item
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance of various appropriations. Each year a number of appropriations bills are passed, and the total expenditure is not entirely clear. Among the many proposals to correct this situation, Senator Byrd's two bills offer the best solution--an omnibus bill for a whole year's appropriations and an item veto...
...fully aware of the extent of their expenditures. Responsibility for the public debt would be more sharply focussed on one all-important vote. Realizing this, Congressmen would hold pressure groups in much less regard. An omnibus appropriations bill, however, would hamstring the President completely, unless he were allowed an item veto...
Government critics have requested an item veto for some hundred years, but Congress has always rejected the idea, fearing permanent loss of its purse power to the President. The Byrd bill, however, provides for flexible but strong control of the President, since the Constitution would be amended only to enable Congress to confer the item veto power by statute. If the President got out of hand, Congress could pass a new law to meet the situation; if the legislature did not choose to withdraw the power completely, it could restrict the executive merely by redefining the scope of the words...
Never before in history had a medical development been big, instantaneous news over a large part of the world. Such a momentous item as Fleming's penicillin moldered for years in musty libraries before laymen heard of it. Last week's report on the Salk vaccine was good for banner headlines everywhere, and was covered by the press as massively as the end of a major war-which it was. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.* Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever...
...catalogue is another large administrative expense, which occupies more librarians than any other single item. But the catalogue has already been simplified more than in any other large library, too far, the overseers claim. Buck will be under pressure to expand rather than contract this department...