Word: itemizes
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This, even more than the loss of war powers, may be the most debilitating congressional deference to the Executive Branch. Congress once determined, item by item, what the Government should spend for what purpose, then dutifully raised the revenue to do so. It has attempted to deal with the growing complexity of spending and taxing by creating a multiplicity of committees and subcommittees. As a result, Congress has no overall view of either function, and thus no means of rationally setting priorities. The Bureau of the Budget, created in 1921 to aid both Congress and the President, has been captured...
...skills and habits necessary for the exercise of scholarly authority and they thus have no right on the executive committee of the Afro-American Studies Department nor on that of any other department in this university. Faculty legislation on reforms in Afro-American Studies would be remiss without this item. Indeed none of the foregoing items of reform should be left to ad hoc arrangements; they should be entrenched in legislation. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...belatedly, Murphy assigned a 200-man task force to make a full inventory of all narcotics supposed to be in police possession. That, of course, will take weeks. Also, it is doubtful that a mere inventory will do much to get at the inside source of the thefts. One item the cops probably will not find is the clothing worn by Nunziata when he died. Meglio sought the garments as evidence in challenging the suicide ruling, but they turned out to be missing from the property room...
...Tour, succeeds in the delicate job of balancing the complete ordinariness of Davis with a weighty implication: salvation (whatever it may be) lies in the pilgrimage, not in any destination. Should this prove too transcendental for some tastes, it is worth noting that according to a recent item in the Wall Street Journal, hiking boots are a growth Stock...
...People section of TIME [Nov. 6] the following item appeared. "While Mailer waxed outrageous and his audience enthusiastically heckled. . . he dropped such nuggets as. . . 'Most women have just started to think in the last two or three years,' (and) 'McGovern is the only man who is morally superior to me.' Finally Mailer invited 'all the feminists in the audience to please hiss.' When a satisfying number obliged, he commented: 'Obedient little bitches...