Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed Congress to put together a tax bill with new loopholes that benefited special interests and the rich. Reagan named a woman to the Supreme Court, thereby keeping a campaign pledge. But apart from the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor, he has opposed virtually every important item on the feminist agenda. When Reagan blithely suggested that people who cannot make it where they now live can "vote with their feet" by migrating to greener pastures, he sounded like a social Darwinist...
...Harvard Lampoon issued it first-ever parody of The Crimson, a stinging sheet playing on the stolid greyness that was the paper's hallmark in its early days. The lead story discussed in excruciating detail the replacement of one oarsman with another; buried beneath it was a one-paragraph item headlined "A Dangerous Attempt." A passerby, the item informed readers, had noticed a lighted fuse attached to Memorial Hall; at its end was enough pieric acid not only to "wreck" Memorial Hall but also to damage some adjacent buildings. Another paragraph or two describes the relese of deadly diphtheria, cholera...
...week's end, the government newspaper Izvestia published a tiny news item on the affair. The article, in its entirety, said: "In connection with the fact that the parents of Y.K. Alexeyeva have withdrawn their objections to her leaving the Soviet Union, a decision has been taken to grant her an exit visa by way of exception." It was the first announcement to the Soviet public that Sakharov had won his battle with the Kremlin...
People seem to be buying mostly practical items this year. "Wool socks are a gifty item" at the Cambridge Army and Navy Store, and Hit or Miss is selling a lot of shetland sweaters and velvet. Furniture stores also claim to be doing well. "I don't understand it, I figured it would be terrible," Phillip L. Dicarlo, the manager of Putnam Furniture, said yesterday...
...that Weinberger has become merely a money shoveler, doing little to reformulate national strategy or work for greater military efficiencies. His initial 1982 request for $222 billion was 11% higher than the budget Jimmy Carter had projected for 1982, yet it charted no new directions; it merely boosted spending, item by item. If Weinberger looked like a prisoner of the generals on the budget, he appeared to be an amateur in rejecting the advice of his high command on the MX missile and vacillating on a new strategic bomber. After much public agonizing, he failed to come up with...