Word: itemizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Publisher Moreau makes a cynical and transparent attempt to defend Suicide on the grounds that "the right of suicide is an inalienable right, like the right to work, the right to like certain things, the right to publish." The last item in the series, of course, is key. It doesn't take much imagination to see the results if life-and-death information becomes part of the general flow of carelessly-tossed-off junk books...
...years of exile on the fringe of American politics, after stunning victories in the 1980 elections, after almost two years of impatient waiting while the Administration and Congress focused on economic matters, the New Right and its allies at last had a fighting chance to pass the most controversial item on their social agenda: legislation to ban abortion. But after three futile attempts to muster the votes necessary to choke off a liberal filibuster, the most conservative Senate in more than a generation abandoned the effort and voted 47 to 46 last week to table the issue...
...called social issues were heavily debated during the 1980 campaign and were crucial in electing Ronald Reagan to the presidency. The 97th Congress, with its eager class of conservative freshmen, was expected to legislate traditional morality back into American life. But not one item of the New Right's prospectus has yet been made a law. Legislation that would allow organized prayer in public schools faced another filibuster. A bill authorizing tax credits for private school tuitions is mired in the Senate. And a measure that would restrict busing for school desegregation passed the Senate but is languishing...
...West Coast-based daily newspapers, Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. Vaunting oneself in "the trades"* is second nature throughout Hollywood. Says one major studio executive: "Ours is a business of hype." Scarcely a day goes by without an ad, a story or a skillfully planted gossip item about an overnight success, an out-of-town comeback, an agent's abject gratitude that some hot client continues to employ him. Says cable talk-show host Colin Dangaard: "A publicist in this town would rather have a story about a client in the Hollywood Reporter than in the Wall Street...
...city investment and incentive programs have provided 20 real estate corporations with over $330 million in uncollected taxes. Koch's tax incentive programs cost New Yorkers $174 million in fiscal year 1982, which has led a city councilwoman to report that "these tax giveaways are the fastest growing expenditure item in the city budget...