Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he was nominated, Carnesale said, "the first item of business is assuring the public health and safety," and he believes the agency should conduct a thorough review of emergency procedures at the nation's nuclear power facilities...
...Salary will be the only item some of our people will object to, and there are some pockets of resistance already," LaChance said, but he added he expected the membership to ratify the pact late this month or early next...
...last item on the ballots of a third of the Massachusetts districts, including Cambridge's, will be a referendum calling for a moratorium on the construction of nuclear power plants in the state...
Resumption of chemical weaponry production also poses all the usual problems--more money for defense, money that is badly needed elsewhere in this world, and the dangerous potential for escalation inherent in any attempt to match the Soviet Union item for item in every aspect of military spending. In addition, the environmental hazards posed by the manufacture of nerve gas would seem to mirror those currently plaguing plutonium production. Those who argue that the new binary systems will be "safe" are not supported by past experience with hazardous materials...
...means being introduced to a woman who wrote "the definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx." It means being offered unproducible scripts, including a musical-comedy treatment of the Guyana massacre. It means being solicited to join committees for Soviet dissidents, to help stamp out leukemia, to donate a personal item to a celebrity auction for the blind ("Somebody told me you wear a truss. An old truss would be just wonderful"). It means being asked to sit for an interview on "the shallow indifference of wealthy celebrities." And everywhere there are autograph freaks. A young woman asks, "Would you sign...