Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...item on abortion, for instance, said only that there should be no constitutional amendment to overrule the Supreme Court's moderately permissive decision. That goes along with Carter's previous stand. During the primary campaign, candidates to the left of Carter had urged legislation now to break up large oil companies (see BUSINESS). Carter had stopped short of that. The platform noted the lack of a "free, competitive market for crude oil in the U.S." It supported new Government restrictions "when competition inadequate to insure free markets and maximum benefit to American consumers exists...
...charges for the July 12th week reaching $37.50 each for stack chairs, $55 for a typewriter stand, $140 for a filing cabinet and $10 for a wastebasket. TV sets are $50 per day. One firm is accused of having raised its prices from 50% to 400%, depending on the item, in the past four months...
...issue, with 6 million copies distributed, is now a collector's item. It used TIME'S unique newsmagazine method to bring alive the start of the Bicentennial story. In 1789, we show how it all came...
...fashioned girl comes to the big city because she is too special to settle down with a small-town Chevy dealer. In her memoir Laughing All the Way (1973), North Carolina-born Howar outlined just how special she was. Emerging from postmarital tristesse, she became a Washington gossip item. Names dropped like martini olives. Jealousies were disguised by a jovial rictus...
...Some of the headlines are attempts to be amusing (for example, the Hillel announcements). The justifiability of this approach is questionable--I wasn't aware that you had also assumed the function of college humorist. However, my particular complaint is about a notice that was definitely not funny. This item appeared on Saturday, April 10, under the heading of "Ethnic Purity." The notice announced that the Institute of Politics fellow Gilbert Carmichael and his former campaign manager were to speak about the "New South." The implication of the title, especially after the controversy over Jimmy Carter's use of that...