Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russia angst is one of the simple pleasures of life. But these days it is the one item in oversupply. According to a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside story" of reform...
...Everybody says it's this welfare business that got us into this mess, defining welfare as the problem of blacks and Hispanics. The second biggest item in the Connecticut budget, around $700 million, is nursing-home care as required by Medicaid. When people talk welfare, what they don't understand is you're talking Medicaid. My state health commissioner says 80,000 children here are identified as having lead poisoning. This year's budget includes an additional $500,000 in funds for lead-poisoning detection, prevention and treatment. Is that welfare, or is it 80,000 sick kids...
...Draft questions still plague Clinton," reported the Wall Street Journal on its front page last Friday. The item added that to fend off Republican attacks on this score, Clinton may feel compelled to pick as his running mate his erstwhile rival Bob Kerrey, who lost a leg and won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam...
...every item in the bags is as harmless as a lunch sack--or as soft as the Charmin that Harvey sees so often. "Those clipboards, they're dangerous," Goodridge says, warily eying the sharp edge of a metal clip...
...first item on the new agenda is cooperation. The University-wide Environmental Studies committee, for instance, is an effort to bring professors from various Harvard faculties closer together...