Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boris Yeltsin futures at the Russian stock market in downtown Moscow. Every day at 4:36 p.m., youthful brokers with code names like "Father," "Moon" and "Winter" buy and sell contracts pegged to whatever percentage of the vote they believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about making a profit than about...
...that was, by turns, scabrous, brazenly rhetorical and morally obsessed. Compared with the thin, overconceptualized gruel that most political art in postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade, 30 ft. long and including hundreds of figures, from life-size horses to tiny toy Indians and frogs, wants to impress you so much it becomes a fulsome, preachy bore...
...Kellogg relies on domestic cereal sales for 42% of its revenues and 43% of its $1.26 billion in operating profits. The company said it would lower prices only on a brand-by-brand basis. For instance, this month it lowered the price of its Raisin Bran, a fiercely contested item, 15%, to $3.40 for a 20-oz. box. No. 2 General Mills was also standing pat. Big G took the first stab at price cuts two years ago, when it lowered the price of Wheaties, Cheerios and other cereals an average of 11%. It has gained market share. Says John...
...Milton Berle that was expected to sell for $2,000 to $2,500 went for $574,500; $442,500 for an oak rocking chair used in the Kennedy White House; $48,875 for a Tiffany silver tape measure engraved with Mrs. Kennedy-Onassis' initials. The list goes on, each item far exceeding the expected sale price. Thus many who had made the trip to an auction house for the first time in their lives in the hopes of owning a piece of Camelot quickly saw their hopes outbid by the frenzied buyers. Bruce Wolmer, editor in chief of Art & Auction...
Although long overdue, the line-item veto is hardly a cure-all. The legislation is riddled with loopholes and will expire in eight years unless Congress extends it. Worse, the obvious pork in the budget amounts to no more than about $10 billion of all federal spending--less than 1% of the total. And getting a handle on the nation's true, long-term spending problems--the product of an aging population entitled to benefits for which there are increasingly insufficient funds--will have to wait for another day. The giant, budget-busting benefit programs, mainly Social Security and Medicare...