Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanted to drink with his snack, put his print on a cup, a straw and a cow. The solution: Blue wanted to drink milk from a cup with a straw. As Steve looks for the clues, he runs into other characters and performs simple logic exercises--asking, say, which item doesn't belong in a group of vegetables in which three are green and the fourth is a carrot. The pace of Blue's Clues is deliberate, the material is presented very clearly, and the same episode airs daily for a week so the viewers can master the material...
...your item on FCC proposals for installing television V chips in personal computers [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 3]: in seeking comment about whether to put the chips in new PCs, the FCC is following the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which directs the agency to ask questions concerning V chips, including whether PCs that double as TV receivers should be equipped with the chips. These are only proposals and do not include PCs that do not function as TV receivers, nor do they apply to the Internet. My hope is that the computer industry and all interested parties will tell the FCC what...
Southpaws Are Expansion Favorites As baseball's expansion teams from Tampa and Arizona make their draft picks, the hot item on everyone's shopping list appears to be left-handed pitchers...
...first item on his agenda was to diversify the trust's money. "It wasn't prudent," says Williams, "for an institution to have such a large portion of its endowment subject to the vicissitudes of a single stock." After some years of litigation, he and the board managed to clear the way to sell, in 1984, its Getty Oil stock to Texaco for $10 billion. In the end, this gave Williams $2.3 billion to play with in creating the Getty Center. With shrewd management, this endowment has since grown to $4.3 billion--four times that of New York's Metropolitan...
...your item on Bill Clinton's hearing loss [WASHINGTON DIARY, Oct. 13]: I got my hearing aid about five years ago, at age 48. My associates were complaining that I was ignoring them. My boss insisted that I get a hearing aid because he was tired of saying I wasn't ignoring my colleagues but simply couldn't hear them. I contended I was indeed ignoring them; however, I broke down and got a hearing aid anyway. But I'm still ignoring them--all the more now that I can hear all the B.S. they have to say. FRED DESIO...