Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy snowfall to show up during the course of the 4½-hour meeting. At 10 a.m., Moderator Norman Cummings, 47, a carton designer at the General Electric plant in nearby Burlington, opened the proceedings with the customary "Hear ye, hear ye," and began going through the eleven-item agenda. Children scurried about the benches, and old folk chatted quietly in the corners. Some wandered out, and others came in from the snow outside. An old tinplate contraption in the back of the room wheezed hot air up from the furnace downstairs, adding to the background...
...first controversial item involved a proposal to change the local real estate tax system by dropping the 4% discount offered to those who pay early. Tax delinquencies had reached nearly $37,000 last year-about 12% of this year's proposed $298,000 budget-and some thought the town could ill afford the discounts. Said Selectman Roderick Ross: "For years we've been giving away $6,000 and that's putting us in a hole...
Cummings then came to the main item on the agenda: what Huntington should do with the $31,000 in revenue-sharing money it will get from the state and federal governments this year. After voting some lesser items, including $5,000 for a landfill project and $1,391 for ambulance service, Cummings announced what he described as "the biggie"-a proposal to buy a new $40,000 fire truck to replace "the 1946 antique we've got down there...
...they get credit, people's buying habits change: on sudden impulse they pick up items they would never have bought if they had to pay cash. Explains Madi Ferencz, a senior product manager for Colgate-Palmolive Co. in New York: "Knowing I can charge an item, I say, 'Oh well, the bill will not be corning in for another month.' " At one auction, Ferencz dipped into her bank line of credit to make the winning bid of $500 for a Persian rug. "I wasn't planning on buying a rug, but this one came...
...Mamet's 20 plays, including his recent off-Broadway hits, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Duck Variations. It will also produce his new children's play, Revenge of the Space Pandas, as well as Woods, a celebration of heterosexual love-no longer, he laments, "a hot item on the shelf of American commerce." Mamet has joined in the celebration, though he remains a bachelor and currently lives alone. In his spare moments he is working on the film scenario of Sexual Perversity and a new adaptation of the old Alec Guinness film, Last Holiday. The theater...