Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1981, the war in Viet Nam is re-emerging as an item of profoundly unfinished moral and psychological business. It is not so much a nasty secret as a subject that Americans tacitly agreed not to discuss for a time...
...some circles coke is a barter item, readily accepted for dental work, as an accountant's fee or in exchange for a discount on a new car. "I have one friend who got stuck with staggering alimony payments," says Jim Groth, a Southern California newspaper editor. "He started dealing a little, and now he is paying off his wife in toot, and everybody is happy...
What developed into a front-page item for The New York Times and a sore spot for not-a-few University affiliates began with the discovery of the DNA molecule, considered a fundamental unit of life. The work of genetics experts and molecular biologists in recent years had opened windows through which scientists have envisioned amazing possibilities: cancer fertilizing plants, limitless energy supplies. While the development during the past few years of companies to research and develop ideas involving DNA has whetted the intellectual curiosity of the scientific world, it has simultaneously opened the eyes of specualtive investors...
Next Monday's vote should be "formal and routine," city councilor David Wylie said, adding that the council examined the budget line-item by line-item and voted not to reconsider most of the details...
Meanwhile, England, while also engendering experimental work, has retained an affection for good power-pop music. Singles remain a hot item t' ere today, while in the U.S. they're an albatross around the companies' necks. So in England, after John Lennon's death. "Imagine" made its way back to the top ten, an unheard-of event in America; and in England, a group can have many popular singles out without having to put out a whole album...