Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bijan has sold 47 of his limited edition of 200. Among the anonymous customers: a U.S. Senator, three kings, several overseas leaders and an OPEC oil minister. Most have told him that they want the gun as a collector's item, but a few say they will use it if the need arises. Says he: "Anyone who is wealthy and powerful is a target." What next for Bijan? Well, he could always try silver bullets...
After chastity slouched off into exile in the '60s, the sexual revolution encountered little resistance. Indeed, in the age of the Pill, Penthouse Pets and porn-movie cassettes, the revolution looked so sturdily permanent that sex seemed to subside into a simple consumer item. Now, suddenly, the old fears and doubts are edging back. So is the fire and brimstone rhetoric of the Age of Guilt. The reason for all this dolor: herpes, an ancient viral infection that can be transmitted during sex, recurs fitfully and cannot be cured. Also known as the scourge, the new Scarlet Letter...
...service, called DowAlert, transmits spot business news, market reports, scheduled news summaries and other features via satellite to major FM stations around the country. The reports are relayed by a coded signal to a specially designed home or office radio. Subscribers can program their units to play news items about a specific company, industry or subject. The radio automatically crackles to life when information about a selected item is transmitted, and then falls silent. Most bulletins last 60 sec. or less. DowAlert, which is initially being marketed in Boston and Philadelphia, will cost $50 a month, after a $150 installation...
Throughout the country, medical charges last year jumped by a record 12.5%, the largest gain for any major consumer item, and are still rising at about the same breathless clip. Says Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker: "We appear to have turned the corner on most of inflation, but health costs have shown very little sign of improvement...
...principal item of business was tying up some odds and ends on President Reagan's proposal for a sharp reduction in strategic nuclear arms. Several of the participants noted that there was something unusual about the meeting: it was not contentious. And that, they realized, was because Secretary of State Alexander Haig, even while arguing his department's position forcefully, seemed uncharacteristically at ease. Instead of thumping the table to emphasize his feelings, he viewed the problem with almost philosophical detachment. When a presidential decision went against him, he actually seemed to accept defeat gracefully...