Word: itemizes
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...Constitution requiring that the budget be balanced, but it fell one vote short in the Senate, where Republican Mark Hatfield of Oregon defected, insisting it was a gimmick. At the moment, the House and Senate are crafting a compromise on another kind of budget-cutting measure, the presidential line-item veto. But with a Democrat in the White House, Republicans are in no rush to hand Clinton a scalpel...
...centerpieces of the Contract with America, the campaign platform on which the vast majority of Republican congressional candidates ran, was a balanced budget amendment that would ensure a balanced federal budget by the year 2002. In surveys done before the election, this item along with term limitations proved the most popular among the American public. Yet now, only a year later, public support for the Republican balanced budget plan has drastically eroded, the result of Democratic attempts to scare and confuse many voters through sensationalism and half-truths...
...SHAME THAT YOUR ITEM ON NEVADA rancher Dick Carver, "That Pocket Constitution," contained a reader's erroneous reference to Thomas Jefferson as a drafter of the Constitution [LETTERS, Nov. 13]. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence but not the Constitution. He was Minister to France when the Constitution was written in 1787 and objected strongly to the omission of a bill of rights. Partly as a result of Jefferson's urging, the first 10 Amendments were soon added to the Constitution. GARY L. TAYLOR U.S. District Judge Santa Ana, California...
...course, Ace and Ginger quickly become an item, and when Ace makes her an offer she can't refuse, they get engaged. The fact that they are not in love is less important than the fact that they are swimming in money. In Las Vegas, money is the only prerequisite for happiness...
...most important item before the school committee, Turkel says, is helping those in schools adjust to educational reform laws so they can improve the schools in the long...