Word: item
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voters who have decided will harden their positions as they absorb additional glimpses and reports on the men. The undecided will pile up all the pieces of information gathered through these weeks and see which way the scale tips-if it does tip either way. With them, a small item might make the difference. The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee figures that the ingredients will be "seven or eight parts TV, three or four parts reading, one part wife or husband, one part drugstore, one part religion and one part geography...
...school and are paying their own money." Leonard Kopelman, who teaches accounting in the Extension School, is concerned about the mushrooming cost of higher education, and sees extension as "a built-in stabilizer for education in the future," preventing it from becoming once again a luxury item, only for the very rich...
...elephant? A Los Angeles firm can rent you one. Want to found your own church? No problem-a religious sect in Modesto advertises charters at $2 a month. From fast food to faster skateboards, whatever Californians want, there is usually an enterpriser around to sell it. The trendiest item now on the market: legal education...
...meeting began at 4:15 p.m. and adjourned at 6:15 p.m. promptly. In the intervening two hours, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life waded through an eight item agenda with an efficiency seldom seen in the last two years...
...biggest revenue item is an increase in the "minimum tax," which will raise more than $1 billion next year. That also is a significant piece of reform, since the provision will reduce the number of people who earn high incomes but pay only minuscule taxes. The minimum tax is levied on so-called preference income that is not subject to normal taxation-a part of the long-term capital gains from sale of stock or real estate, for instance. The minimum tax rate is now 10%; the new bill raises the rate to 15% and applies the tax to much...