Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these dazzling catalogues afford an index? Because, dear consumer, you will be forced to read them page by page, item by item, lest you miss the quintessential Christmas gift for Aunt Susie-or yourself. Big and small, plain and fancy, the catalogues skimmed randomly seem like an incantatory litany of affluence: bulletproof vests and see-through lingerie, blackout candles and Waterford chandeliers, buffalo steaks, Texas chili and Italian cheese, Taos Indian drums, underwater cameras, solid-fuel rockets, night-vision goggles, woks, socks, building blocks, coffee roasters, toasters, coasters, cashmere sweaters, G strings, food processors, wine vinegar, wine racks and wine...
...about two minutes toward the end of the CBS Morning News show. Although 25 percent of American voters took part in the closest thing the U.S. has ever had to a national referendum the night before the CBS interviewer commented that the freeze question wasn't a top priority item for voters...
...debate was endless. Colantuono averted disaster by consistently refusing to allow meaningless discussion to continue. And, at a more critical juncture, when a few members grumbled about the fact that sexual harassment would be discussed in council and not in committee, Colantuono explained that he viewed the agenda item as an important and topical one, and gained unanimous consent to continue...
There are serious doubts in the auto industry, though, that the DMC-12 will turn into a collector's item, like the Cord or the Edsel. One such skeptic is Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, retired president of Ford Motor Co. and mentor of De Lorean when both were at GM. Says he: "Usually you have to have cars built in really small quantities to be collector's items, perhaps 700 or less...
Mississippi's Second District is nestled in the state's rich Delta region, an area famous for cotton and the blues. If Democratic State Representative Robert G. Clark triumphs over Republican Webb Franklin in November, the Delta may add a third item to its list of distinctions: Mississippi's first black Congressman since...