Word: itemizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sigrid C. Gabler '85, the petition's author, said yesterday she decided to take action on the muffin shortage after the coveted item was omitted from a breakfast earlier this month...
...black market in Siberia; tapes of Michael Jackson and the Police go for $54 in Moscow. Teen-agers are so fond of Adidas sneakers that a new Russian adjective has been coined: adidasovsky, meaning "terrific." A trendy girl is described as firmennaya, from firma, meaning an item with a Western brand name...
...tell the Macintosh what to do, one moves the pointer on the screen by sliding the mouse across the desk. Once the pointer reaches the desired item on the display, a click of the button on the mouse sets the machine in motion...
...world markets, its weaponry certainly can. Moscow has a political interest in meddling in Third World conflicts, but economics as well as ideology has driven the Soviets to become major players in the booming weapons market; foreign sales keep Soviet production lines operating at a lower cost per item and bring in badly needed hard currency. Between 1971 and 1981, Soviet arms sales to the Third World earned an estimated $21 billion in hard currency. Says U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs Lawrence Eagleburger: "Arms have become a larger portion of exports from the U.S.S.R. than from any other country...
Neither group made any commitments, and no date was set for new talks. All the players were afraid of championing any deficit-cutting steps that might conceivably prove to be political liabilities in the coming campaign. The only thing agreed upon was that Social Security, the biggest nondefense budget item, was off limits. Observed Democratic Congressman Leon Panetta of California: "There's a helluva lot of political paranoia that's in the way of getting something done...