Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Holsteins were selected because they were meant to yield nourishment, not be slaughtered for it. Ono took care of all the details, and Lennon did not know about the sale of one of the cows until he read an item in the paper. He was even more pleased than surprised. "Only Yoko," he said admiringly, "could sell...
Scheduler Chuck Tyson wants to put an item on the agenda for Reagan's visit this week. 'Let's go over it,' Meese says, putting on his glasses. Then he spots an old friend wandering in the hall. 'Jim,' Meese calls out, grabs his arm and introduces him around. Every conversation starts with a pleasantry. Often a visitor, who has carefully planned the quickest way to say what he needs to say, is disarmed...
...bicycle, formerly a Christmas-tree item or a Sunday diversion, has become a serious vehicle of transport in some American cities. But when bikes move into heavy traffic, problems of incompatibility arise. The circulatory system of the metropolitan U.S. is designed for cars and trucks, with pedestrians granted their margin on the sidewalks. In the culture of freeway or gridlock, the bicycle is a fragile but aggressive intruder. Today around the nation the shaken fist and flourished finger are exchanged between bikers and cabbies and bus drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step...
...Hydraulic Industrial, a small-scale supplier of pipes and valves to local industry (1979 sales: $2 million), has spent $65, 000 on a mincomputer system that enables his 22 employees to monitor and control every administrative and record-keeping aspect of the business. For example, every time a particular item in stock runs low, the computer is programmed to warn of the decline...
...they fear that Reagan would blow up the world. Even if the viewer knows it is a commercial, the image men expect the subliminal "actuality" to linger. So widespread is this practice that NBC Nightly News, in the election's final week, put together a cutesie "news" item, with a quick succession of voters, each saying, "I'm undecided"; "I'm undecided." Even the devices of parody news had become a part of real news...