Word: itemizes
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...Coop. Although some humanities textbooks are available at other bookstores, science textbooks can rarely be found elsewhere. Notebooks, pens, and other non-essentials--even Harvard insignia clothing--exist at other stores in the square. But the Coop has a virtual monopoly on textbooks, the fundamental item in every class, and prices them uncompetitively. If other bookstores had access to these lists, students would get better deals as numerous bookstores vied for their attention...
Your Winners & Losers item on new laws on the books in '97 had it backward when it criticized fee increases at some of America's national parks [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 13]. Higher entrance fees at the parks is an all-around winner for the visiting public and the parks. A week in some of America's most spectacular places still costs my family less than going to a movie. That's a good deal for us. Under the new law, the parks will keep 80% of the money they raise, using it for badly needed maintenance and preservation. That protects park...
Wise guys call it "the magic box." It's the hottest item in the underworld high-technology arsenal--and the feds' worst nightmare. This cigarette pack-size gizmo threatens to send the wiretap the way of the FBI fedora. It sells for about $1,200 from some mail-order electronics distributors in the U.S. and the U.K. Cabled to a cellular telephone, it allows a bad guy to change his cell-phone number every three or four minutes with just a few keystrokes. Says Secret Service agent Robert Weaver: "The criminal can become a needle in a haystack electronically...
...Inaugural. The rest of the $30 million cost will be offset by the sale of tickets and trinkets, like the $39.95 bronze medallion, featuring likenesses of Clinton and Al Gore, available from the qvc shopping channel. (During one brief three-hour segment, buyers phoned in orders for the commemorative item totaling, on average, $10,800 a minute.) But home shopping is at least democratic; the sale of tickets to special Inaugural events is not. Democratic donors won the right to purchase the best seats at the parade, the balls and the gala based in part on how much they gave...
...also don't want to imply cronyism. According to a newspaper item I read, Williams, who was close to Bill Clinton when the Clintons lived in Fayetteville many years ago, could now be described more accurately as an acquaintance than a friend--although, as Lani Guinier and Harold Ickes could testify, that seems to be true of everyone the President knows...