Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest single item in Reagan's 1982 defense budget is $2.4 billion for development of the MX missile, the new mobile intercontinental ballistic weapon. Prime contractors include Martin Marietta, TRW, Rockwell International and Boeing. Construction has so far been delayed because the Reagan Administration wants to review whether the weapon should be based on land, in submarines or, incredibly, in dirigibles...
Austen exaggerates nothing; given her target she scarcely had to. But she brings to this item of juvenilia the mark of an accomplished satirist: she sets foolishness off against an implied moral world. Near the end of her narrative, Laura recalls meeting a plain girl named Bridget: "She could not be supposed to possess either exalted Ideas, Delicate Feelings or refined Sensibilities - She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil & obliging Young Woman ..." To her later glory, Jane Austen was to make a lasting place in English fiction for such plain creatures...
...Item: The Boston Red Sox traded reliever Dick Drago to the Seattle Mariners to finalize their opening day roster...
...first item Caulkins addressed was the well-publicized conversation she had with a reporter after she beat world record-holder and Olympic gold medalist Petra Schneider at Gainesville in the 400 meter individual medley. "I didn't say I was the best, I said I was one of the best." Caulkins explains, adding apologetically. "It was just hard not to feel good after I beat the world's champion...
...California law a retraction severely limits damages against a newspaper involved in a libel action. But Judge Peter Smith ruled that the Enquirer was a magazine and thus not protected. The Enquirer's defense was then seriously undermined when a reporter who had been asked to verify the item testified that his editor had insisted on running the story despite the reporter's misgivings about its accuracy...