Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Robert and Carol Bly "went to hide out at the farm" on the edge of the Lutefisk Capital of the World. Lutefisk is a Norwegian dried fish, an item of sentimental immigrant nostalgia and distinctly an acquired taste. Madison has a large metal sculpture of the lutefisk beside the main road into town. (Another artistic item in town: a wooden sculpture with a sign that says INDIAN DONE BY LOCAL CHAIN-SAW ARTIST...
...name. Explained Karen DeYoung, the Post's assistant managing editor for national news: "Our policy is that we don't write about personal lives of public officials unless the personal aspects begin influencing the way they perform their jobs." The paper canceled a Jack Anderson column, normally a featured item, because it named the man, even though editors assumed many of Anderson's 700-plus clients would run the story, making the Post's discretion largely symbolic...
When Larami, a Philadelphia toy company, introduced its Super-Soaker water gun this past spring, it was a success. But sales over the past few weeks have been so overwhelming that the item is completely sold out in stores. "We've sold millions," says company spokesman Bob Lieberman. "We have three factories in China working 24 hours a day, and we still can't keep up with the demand." They're also becoming hot in Europe and Japan...
Today anyone in Michigan who wants to buy a handgun must take a 10-item true-or-false test, responding to such propositions as "You should treat every pistol as if it were loaded" and "You should always keep the barrel of a pistol pointed in a safe direction." Just in case the questions are too tough, the answers are all "true" and are printed on the back...
...tourist dollars to the more traditional Indian tribes of the region without disrupting their way of life. Some of the tribes will trade elaborate traditional cloaks called kushmas, which take three months to make, for a machete or an ax -- far below what tourists would pay for the same item. Peruvian biologist Ernesto Raez fears, however, that encouraging the Indians to reorganize themselves to serve even small numbers of tourists will require profound transformations in village life. "We should not ask conservation to do the work of social change," he says...