Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foie de U.S. Another favorite item is American orange juice, which is sweeter and less acidic than competing North African brands. Last year France imported $1,300,000 worth of bottled U.S. juice, compared with $5,000 worth in 1965. Half of the 46,000 tons of mostly frozen orange juice bought by Sweden last year came from Florida: it sold briskly at an expensive 43? for a 6-oz. can. European consumers are also starting to nibble at American iceberg lettuce-to the dismay of gourmets, who find the limper, leafier continental varieties more delicate. Imports into Germany have...
...called a set-up. S. Schwartz can now be expected to play a later role in David's story-perhaps to kill him, or to sleep with him, or (with sledgehammer irony) to turn up being his long-lost trampy-heiress half-sister. But placing that demand on an item in a narrative is the result of our Pavlovian response to rhetorical conventions. Interesting people float into our real lives, and just as arily float away, but in hard-core art we demand that major plot details assemble themselves into discernible constellations by the end of the work...
Very few live better on welfare than they would with full-time jobs at adequate wages. Obviously, cheating does happen. Item: In California, a man combined a secret job and welfare for an annual income of $16,800. Item: a regulation-wise hippie commune in Berkeley reconstituted itself into eight paper "households" and collected $1,000 a month in aid. Item: a group of middle-class suburbanites in Piedmont, Calif., where county rules require only identification and a statement of need before aid is issued, dramatized their displeasure with the system by easily getting onto the rolls at several offices...
People buying gum or fruit drops today often find themselves fumbling for change and playing candy-counter roulette with various vendors who charge different prices for the same item. The trouble started when some manufacturers increased their prices on nickel candy and gum by either 1? or 2?. In the subsequent confusion, wholesalers and retailers ignored the official prices and began charging whatever the traffic would bear. As a result, some people soured on sweets, and sales were hurt. Market analysts concluded that customers do not like to dig out several coins for a small purchase, would just as soon...
...editors of Hoot Owl, a biweekly newspaper in Arlington, Texas, are upset, witness the following item...