Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview left the ballistics issue as the major unexplained item. The Post also located Harper and got him to qualify his earlier statement. A recognized forensic specialist, Harper prepared an affidavit for Sirhan's attorneys in 1970 noting discrepancies between markings on the bullet taken from Kennedy's neck and those on a bullet that struck a bystander. Last week, however, Harper admitted that the markings do not prove that the bullets came from separate weapons. Differences in the markings, Harper said, are too insignificant to be conclusive...
Western countries trying to get back some of what they have been paying for oil have become furious exporters of both military hardware and modern technology to the Middle East. Now a small U.S. outfit has uncovered a rich Arab market for a somewhat less strategic item: cow manure. RJB Sales Export Inc. of Sequim, Wash., has contracted with the Persian Gulf sheikdoms of Dubai and Bahrain to provide at least 50,000 metric tons of liquefied cow manure each month for three years. Total sales could reach $1.2 billion...
...ring of grocery-store cash registers may soon belong to nostalgia. In its place will come the soft whir and occasional beeping of electronic equipment. Seven large supermarket chains in the U.S. are quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time for consumers and operating costs for store owners...
Pilot Systems. The heart of the operation is a product-coding system under which each of thousands of commonly sold items is identified by a ten-digit number-33900-10020 for an 8-oz. package of Jones hickory-smoked bacon, for example. Postage-stamp-sized rectangles printed on boxes or labels by the packager carry both the product's code number and a set of light and heavy lines that allow an optical scanner set in the newfangled check-out counters to identify each item. The scanner feeds the data to a computer programmed with the store...
Rosovsky said Bailey will be reviewing the Athletics Department's budget with an eye toward possible cuts. "Athletics is a big money item, and we must make sure we use the money in the best way possible," he said...