Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ovitz. The prose is burnished, but not much of the dish is fresh, save for two first-rate pieces -- one by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings about Mob leader John Gotti, the other by Richard Morgan about advertising mogul Burt Manning -- that are spun off from books. The juiciest item is about the marital breakup of billionaire businessman John Kluge. The weakest, a rambling travelogue of Prague, is by editor in chief Jane Lane. Overall, if Details is about night life and style, and Men's Life about home and hearth, M Inc. seems gaga over money...
Bush continues to promote a constitutional amendment to require a balanced budget. The President also pleads for the line-item veto, which would permit him to excise specific parts of large-appropriations bills. The proposed amendment is an illusion: it would have to allow for unforeseen contingencies such as war, and it would not have much impact for several years. The line- item veto, a scalpel wielded by 41 Governors, might be more difficult to use on the highly complex federal budget...
...gathering was to consider a maddeningly complex peace proposal put forth last month by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that requires approval by all the Cambodian "parties" before it can go into effect. The main item on the Jakarta agenda was the plan's call for creation of a Supreme National Council intended to symbolize Cambodian nationhood during a long transition to peace...
...shortage. To ease tensions in the army, he issued a decree on improving the legal and economic rights of military personnel. A committee of top officials from Moscow and the republics has been set to work by Gorbachev on drafting a new treaty of the union. But one major item of business, so important that it may determine Gorbachev's political future and the very fate of the country, awaits his return this week: finishing the draft of a new plan for introducing a market economy...
...problems at factories, outdated equipment, transport troubles and an unexpected rise in demand for bread -- sounded all too familiar to Russians, who are already fuming over the scarcity of cigarettes. As the government daily Izvestia sardonically noted: "We should not be surprised by the fact that yet one more item has gone on the list of shortages -- we should be surprised that anything can still be found in the stores...