Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REBATES. The biggest item is $7 billion to $11 billion in rebates on 1976 personal income taxes. Charles Schultze, Carter's nominee as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says that a "fairly flat" sum will probably be adopted for all income groups, though the precise figure has not yet been determined. Obviously, if everybody gets a $100 or $200 rebate, people with lower incomes stand to benefit the most proportionately. Social Security recipients are expected to receive a one-shot boost in their benefits similar to the $50 they gained from the 1975 tax cut package...
Movies still are pretty much a national virus, and to people who really love them, Citizen Kane is the item to measure the others against. It's such a self-conscious work, that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. Kane is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves...
...principal item on the agenda of the House Democratic Caucus was strictly ho-hum-though it involved selection of the man who will fill the second most powerful political office in the United States: the Speaker of the House. This process has sometimes produced gory battles. But last week, with the 292 Democrats who will sit in the next Congress eligible to vote (along with delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico), there was literally no contest. Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts, after four brilliantly...
...puffy sleeves with pastel flannel figures of Babar the Elephant and his wife Celeste sewn on as a running motif across the apron of her party dress. Now, svelte and shiny in her silk fishnet dress with a fishnet choker and fishnet stockings, she was quite a different item. She looked like a captive eel at the Fulton Fish Market...
...summer of 1975, Buckley, his son, sister-in-law, assorted friends and paid hands sailed to Spain aboard Buckley's 60-ft. cutter Cyrano. Ashore, ships of state were foundering and inflation was making even rubber ducks a luxury item. Buckley's landlubbing wife Pat was waiting apprehensively ("If he comes through this alive, I'll kill him"). But with Europe finally visible to port and Africa looming to starboard, Buckley brought his crew content past changeless Gibraltar...