Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cost 1,200 of CBS's 15,500 employees their jobs. Tisch has also lopped off entire lines of the sprawling conglomerate's business (1985 revenues: $4.8 billion), and is said to be looking for buyers who will take on others. Meanwhile, speculation is increasing that the next item to get the ax may be the "acting" portion of Tisch's CEO title. As Tisch himself has put it, "I've been bitten by CBS. It's got great potential...
...horror! -- it looks like something from J. Robert Oppenheimer's sketchbook. Maybe the words of Johann Stonehouse, national sales and distribution manager for Bandai America, will soothe: "You're not getting your money's worth if it's not hard. It's a challenge. It's a good item for a family project." There! That's it! Family project. Just the thing to work on with the children and perhaps, too, with some holiday phone help from Cousin Jonas, who has, among other sterling qualities, full tenure at M.I.T...
...nation's best-selling toy, but for kids serious about their shooting, Lazer Tag is the game to get. Out only three months and already No. 5 on the Toy Hit Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo...
Faux jewelry's popularity with the stars has helped make it a hot item among women of more modest means who seek the head-turning glamour of a big, glittering gem. U.S. costume-jewelry sales were an estimated $800 million last year, up at least 10% from 1984. When sales from the all-important Christmas rush are tallied, this year is expected to come out even better...
...scandal, "Irangate" if you will, can be seen as just one more item--if the most serious one--in a long list of Administration wrongdoings. The aggressiveness of media coverage of Irangate, on the other hand, is unprecedented. The media has never done anything but damage control for President Reagan. This time it's doing damage...