Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Random thoughts occurred: the $100,000 note he had co-signed to help a relative and now must repay. The news item about the value of the British pound rising to two dollars. The unclaimed 50,000 pounds Kremer prize awaiting the first person to achieve a mile-long, controlled, human-powered flight. "Suddenly this light bulb just glowed over my head," MacCready recalls. "Fifty thousand pounds was worth $100,000, which would pay off the debt...
Roger H. Vaglia '55 of Springfeld, Ohio, who said his favorite item was a steak sandwich with mayonnaise, stopped briefly near the store to survey the changes in the Mt. Auburn St. neighborhood...
...George Bush will be receiving a Soviet leader who has openly warned that his country may be heading toward civil war. That specter haunts conversations with citizens of the U.S.S.R. at many levels of society and in many parts of the country, and it ought to be an urgent item on the international agenda...
...decade's worth of arguments about who has won and who has lost from changes in federal taxes and spending, one item has tended to get overlooked. It's one of the fastest-growing items on the federal books: interest on the national debt. It has more than tripled, from $52 billion in 1980 to $179 billion in 1990. It is closing in on Social Security ($222 billion) as the Government's largest transfer program...
Some editors were outraged when the American Society of Newspaper Editors asked members to post information about a survey of gay and lesbian journalists. "Will the next item on the bulletin board be for 'prostitute journalists' or 'cocaine journalists'?" mocked one. Last week, as several hundred ASNAE members arrived in Washington for their four-day annual meeting, the organization released the results of its survey. While most of the more than 200 respondents felt their employers were tolerant of gays, they reported widespread homophobia in the newsroom. They also judged their newspapers' coverage of gay-related issues to be mediocre...