Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hersey and Essayist John McPhee. Recalls Hersey of his first TIME job, which paid $35 a week in 1937-38: "I got to know a lot of famous people, some of whom were dead." McPhee, whose term was 1958-59, still remembers a favorite epithet, "roadside gourmet," in an item on traveling Restaurant Critic Duncan Hines...
Shales mentions as an example of this attitude an item which appeared in the Washington Post last month and that described Koppel's new indoor pool Complete with the "Nightline" logo in fiber-optic lights, the item said, the black pool was visible from most ground floor rooms...
Reagan was less successful with another item in his $291 billion 1985 military budget. The House defeated, for the third year in a row, Reagan's attempt to appropriate funds for a new generation of chemical weapons. The Senate Armed Services Committee, however, is expected this week to recommend the funding of 21 missiles and to give the President at least some money for chemical weapons; the full Senate, in which Republicans have a majority, will probably go along. All of which means further compromises and cliffhangers are likely when House and Senate conferees sit down to work...
...amend the bylaws, make the job a student position rather than a University one, and survey student office job salaries on campus. But the results would be well worth the trouble. It is both silly and extravagant for a single student to receive the Council's largest budget item...
...bony shoulder, Yasenak flips on a lamp and leans over his desk from the front, pulling out a file card as he says, "Sure, uh-huh-what time do you get home from work?" Within 90 seconds, tops, Yasenak has the youngster agreeing to take a 334-item aptitude test. "A little old gray-haired lady administers it," the sergeant says, "and you'll be asked questions about all kinds of strange things...