Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters to sources and never found an unsubstantiated item...
Many have cried that such a move was foul play, and that issues--the true purpose of the gathering--took a back seat to the glamour of the political pageant. And their argument is bolstered by the fact that the straw poll, originally scheduled as the last item on the weekend agenda, was moved earlier in the day, so the results could make the network news and the early Sunday papers...
...Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. will receive an anxiously awaited item in this week's post-Easter mail: the final revision of a proposed pastoral letter on nuclear arms. The controversial 140-page document accommodates some criticisms from conservatives in the U.S. and Catholics abroad, but it remains a sweeping critique of U.S. nuclear-deterrence strategy at the very time when President Reagan is caught up in a tense international struggle over the issue. Moreover, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago, chairman of the drafting committee, informed fellow bishops in a confidential memo two weeks ago that he discussed...
...profit from - the Bicentennial. Two hundred of those cars were made, each selling for about $11,000 ($25,000 in today's dollars). Edward C. Kennard, Cadillac's general manager, said at the time: "Like the running board and the rumble seat, the convertible is an item that history has passed by." Not quite...
...current practice leaves the authority and responsibility almost wholly with Commerce. Officials there review all applications for export licenses and invite Pentagon recommendation only when they need a second opinion on whether the item might have military value to a Communist nation. Last year, out of 85,000 applications it reviewed, Commerce concluded that about 8,000 involved national-security considerations. Of those, Commerce asked the Pentagon to take a good long look at 2,000. In the end, Commerce denied only 5% of the sensitive applications. For another 10%, it asked the U.S. firms involved to reduce the sophistication...