Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complete it they did, in a series of televised space walks that riveted the nation's attention in December 1993. Floating on the verge of a black void, the crew of the shuttle Endeavour checked off one item after another on their impossible list until, in what Bahcall calls a display of "superhuman intelligence and ability," they were done. NASA's badly battered reputation was on the line, but within days the report came in: the images were excellent. "It was hard to believe," Bahcall remembers. "Each instrument worked exactly as it was designed...
...serve in it, tend to be drawn from the image bank of television footage: a U.S. soldier applying a Zippo lighter to a peasant hut; a Saigon official shooting, on camera, a suspected Viet Cong terrorist through the head. But before the war escalated into a staple item on the nightly news, a much smaller conflict had played itself out in South Vietnam. This one pitted U.S. military brass and members of the Kennedy Administration against a small group of young print reporters assigned to cover a communist guerrilla insurrection in an Asian country that most of their readers back...
...last item discussed by the Faculty Council was health plan increases. According to a letter sent to Harvard faculty and staff, "premium increases in the HealthFlex Bias and Bay State plans are no substantial," officials are giving advance warning...
Each museum or agency which falls under the act was required to produce a summary, rather than an item by item description, of unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects and cultural patrimony by November...
...soundbites" in his briefcase. He says OSHA regulations regarding disposal of bloody medical waste prohibited him from giving children their extracted baby teeth for the tooth fairy. "Now I don't mean that the OSHA idiots said dentists may not give out baby teeth," Norwood says. "They said any item with blood on it is contaminated. Lawyers look at that and read it strictly, and it was the opinion of the American Dental Association that we can't give out baby teeth." The A.D.A. denies it ever issued such an interpretation, but Norwood believes its interpretation of the osha rule...