Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equally important, the states must begin to more effectively and more efficiently use the revenues they now have. Unfortunately. Pennsylvania stands today as a prime example of outmoded and inefficient state government. One item alone stands like a millstone around our neck. I refer to the mammoth spoils system-the worst in the nation. Pennsylvania must clean its own house before she can stand as a bulwark against the monster bureaucracy that daily swells larger in Washington...
...statistics are weighty, Machlup argues that knowledge spreading is indeed a definable industry, which in 1958 produced goods and services worth $136.4 billion. Machlup breaks it down into five subindustries with 52 branches. He includes not only publishing, broadcasting, research and development, but even religion, a $2.5 billion item for everything from clergy to construction. Machlup even puts a price tag on mothers of preschoolers : the pay they give up by staying home, or roughly $4.4 billion. All forms of education (including mothers) cost $60 billion, or almost 13% of the 1958 gross national product. The total knowledge industry, says...
...house, Lombardi would be that man. When he walks down the street, people greet him as some sort of demigod. After home games. Vince and his wife Marie eat dinner at Mancie's restaurant-in ''the Lombardi Room." of course. The hottest selling item in Green Bay bars is Macnish V.L. Scotch. Everywhere else, the V.L. stands for "Very Light," but in Green Bay it stands for Vince Lombardi. And the worst rumor that can sweep Green Bay is that Coach Lombardi might not stay on forever, that he might some day move on to another city...
...nervous affability of a missionary who has stumbled into a cannibal camp. Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer M. Caplin sat down with 700 angry businessmen in Washington last week to explore "the T. & E. problem." T. & E.-for travel and entertainment-will be curtailed sharply as an expense-account item after Jan. i under the tax-law revisions passed in the last session of Congress...
...most popular toy in this store, as well, as at toystores in Cambridge, is a two-and a-half-foot item called Big Bruiser. Jordan Marsh had sold more than 100 in the last hour; seven were on the checkout counter at any particular moment. Big Bruiser is a battery-powered wrecker truck. It wrecks things...