Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presbyterian General Assembly, an elected body that is the heart of the government of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), who number 3,259,011. Last week and this, in Buffalo, as Dr. Blake took charge for the tenth year of the General Assembly, the prime item on the agenda represented the highest ambition of his career-the "Blake Proposal" for the creation of a new, still-unnamed Protestant church out of four old ones. His plan has been Topic A in the ecumenical movement since he put forth his proposal last December...
...Menderes and other top Democrats ordered harassment of opposition Republican Party politicians. Item: a crowd of Democratic Party followers was ordered by Menderes to demonstrate against Inonu in May 1959, overzealously pelted Inonu's car with stones and beat on it with sticks. Item: on Menderes' order, the army harassed Inonu on a political stumping tour in Anatolia, held up his train for three hours, turned him away from a village he was attempting to visit. Item: Democratic Party goons in the Anatolian towns of Canakkale and Geyikli bullied, attacked and injured Republican politicians, though not provably...
...will probably be called upon, as so often is the case, to help make up the difference. But as is not so often the case, the money will probably be well spent. One major deficit item in Villeda Morales' budget is 200 new rural schools costing $5,000 apiece. Another is Honduras' biggest development project, the Rio Lindo-Lake Yojoa hydroelectric plant, which will eventually deliver 165,000 kw., enough to treble the nation's electricity, and bring hopeful new industry to the tiny towns sitting forlornly in the untilled savannas and tropical rain forests...
...book is written to convince traditionally defense-minded people that arms control is a necessity in the nuclear age, that military strategy alone is no longer the only requirement for national defense. Arms control, as Schelling and Halperin explain it, is not something distinct or self-contained, not some item we inaugurate after negotiating an international agreement. Rather, they contend, arms control is an integral part of national security. Even at this moment, for example, we and the Russians refrain from certain actions, e.g. political assassinations, because abstention serves both blocs beneficially. Thus, we already have some arms control...
...midst of this embarrassing hour for the electrical companies, the Interior Department last week irately rejected bids from 15 companies on $1,250,000 worth of electrical equipment because the item-by-item prices offered were identical. The department did not charge collusion. Company spokesmen maintained that the equipment consisted of standard items, and they had simply cited their list prices-which, by force of competition only, were identical...