Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moderator Frederick Houston, a local lawyer, announced that one more article, placed on the warrant by petition of 5% of Newfane voters, would be deliberated before the lunchtime recess. "It won't take long," said Houston, who then quickly read through item 18, which urged "a mutual freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons, and of missiles and new aircraft designed primarily to deliver nuclear weapons, with verification safeguards satisfactory to both countries...
...court was considering an ordinance in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates that limits the sale of drug paraphernalia to those 18 or over and imposes a $150 licensing fee. A local head shop argued that the law was too unclear about which items are covered and was therefore unconstitutional. Nonsense, said Justice Thurgood Marshall, writing for the majority. The ordinance covers any item that "is designed or marketed for use with illegal cannabis or drugs." That language is "sufficiently clear," said Marshall. The court did not rule on whether towns may ban head shops completely, but most...
...vital concerns for effective council to address. Topping the list is how to insure that the myriad concerns of minorities are given serious serious, constant attention. When the student group writing the constitution grudgingly dropped the guaranteed seat clause, it vowed to take up the question as an early item of business for the new council. We would hold them to this. Besides, united opposition to federal financial aid cuts, and to University stock-holdings in South Africa--among other problems--is desperately needed...
...Chipwich cart. Chipwiches were the marketing phenomenon of Summer 1981. All around the city, hundreds of identical little brown carts sprang up and sold a single remarkable item; a scoop of ice cream between two chocolate-chip cookies, I only began to pass up the chipwich vendor when I realized that at a dollar a shot, I could buy two david's cookies and a small scoop of Haagen Dazs...
...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...