Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overestimated the deficit savings in his own plan by $16 billion. Echoing a growing chorus of lawmakers who believe Clinton underestimated the public appetite for cuts by merely nicking programs he should have killed, Penny said, "We figure we have to go after at least one big-ticket item or we won't look credible...
...widest spectrum of antagonists ever put together on South African soil. Besides the African National Congress and the governing National Party, the talks included such ex-boycotters as the apartheid-forever Conservative Party and the black-power Pan Africanist Congress. The conferees reached agreement on the agenda's main item: a resumption by April 5 of formal talks on constitutional issues like power sharing. Said A.N.C. secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa: "A torch of hope has been...
During the era of divided government, conservatives developed an enormous and historically uncharacteristic enthusiasm for presidential power. Conservative legal scholars produced elaborate theories establishing to their own satisfaction that the independent counsel is unconstitutional; that the President not only needs but already has a line-item veto over congressional appropriations; and so on. This trend culminated in President Bush's breathtaking assertion -- never put to the test -- that he could send half a million American troops into battle halfway around the globe without so much as a nod to Congress's constitutional power to "declare...
...denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together, makes sense, stays interesting...
Rudenstine declined to release his letter--which was delivered to the mayor's office by courier--citing it as an item of personal correspondence...