Word: item
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...matters into his own hands if Engerud kept pushing drugs on campus. With the rumor and an anonymous phone tip, administrators broke into Engerud's looker with a pass key, thoroughly searched it and indeed found a big of speed. Police arrested Engerud and charged him with possession with item to distribute...
...while still in his 20s, and then used the profits to acquire increasingly larger properties. Throughout his career, the IRS said, Newhouse shunned big dividends in order to pump corporate earnings into new acquisitions. His purchases of dailies like the New Orleans Times-Picayune and its sister, the States-Item (for $42 million in 1962), set records for the amount spent on newspapers. In 1976, Newhouse outbid Times Mirror for the Booth Newspapers of Michigan, whose holdings included the Sunday magazine supplement Parade. The purchase price of $304.5 million remains the highest ever paid in a U.S. newspaper transaction...
...individuals. The crisis of confidence that arose last week calls for immediate action on the part of the administration to incorporate student representatives on their numerous committees and boards... There must be greater communication between student government and the University administration. The Undergraduate Council must not be just an item on one's resume...
...first item sold in the Harvard Shop was a bright raspberry rain poncho, complete with Harvard insignia. The raspberry was a mistake, according to store manager Nancy Ramsey: the ponchos were supposed to come in crimson...
Milestone fever was entirely absent from the item, which listed Donaldson's former positions in the city administration--two of which she was the first woman to fill. The symptoms of milestone fever it did not demonstrate were numerous and encouraging. It did not include a sampling of opinion--the Lord Mayor's, her colleagaes', the public's or otherwise dwell on the difference it would make to have a woman in this traditional, little-heard-of and Shakespearean-sounding position. To do that would imply that maleness had been intrinsic somehow to the job in times of yore...