Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumption in line with the rest of the world. Second, encourage U.S. firms abroad to disinvest, bring profits and capital back to the U.S. Finally, reduce or eliminate U.S. military presence overseas, particularly permanent installations such as those in Germany and Britain. The dollar is too valuable an item to the U.S. and the world to be handled with such ineptitude...
Almost every imaginable item has been auctioned off at Sotheby's in London, but this was a first: a skull described as "unusually long and narrow ... jawbone lacking." It fetched ? 1,650 ($3,200) last week from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, which decided in 1960 that the skull is almost certainly that of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th century Swedish scientist and mys tic. His writings and visions form the heart of the 50,000-member Swedenborgian religion...
...fish or fruit. Communist leaders boast that their citizens are immune to inflation; but, in fact, continual price hikes are merely artfully concealed by an economy in which wages, prices and even the kinds of goods available are set by the state. For instance, the "official" cost of an item can remain stable for years, but the product may be available only on the black (or gray) market and at a substantial premium...
...compile the old CPI, the Labor Department's 360 price inspectors (all but a handful of whom are housewives) had been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...
Movies still are pretty much a national virus, and to people who really love them, "Citizen Kane" is the item to measure the others against. It's such a self-conscious work that every frame lectures the viewer on film and stagecraft both--and even though its technical precocity makes it something of an exhausting film to watch, you want to watch it over and over after it's finished. "Kane" is the object lesson in American movies--in itself, in legend, in its tradition. It's not the starting point, but the center around which everything else moves...