Word: itemizes
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...award-winning first novel, Becoming Strangers (published last year), in which two main characters dealt with terminal disease, Dean was plowing through the British news of 1981 - a touchstone year of royal romance, race riots and Thatcherism in full cry - when she was sidetracked by a brief item on the death of Bobby Sands. Using lack of knowledge as her passport, Dean spent the next nine months flitting between Provence and Belfast to record the memories of republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British soldiers, prison officers and the Catholic and Protestant residents of Belfast's working-class housing estates. The hundreds...
...appalled by today’s front-page article “Gay Student Alleges Assault” (News, May 2). My outrage begins with the title, which gives the impression that the student’s claim to have been assaulted is the news item, not the assault itself. The article continues in this vein: the subtitle states that the senior “says he was victim of assault,” and the first sentence reads: “An openly gay undergraduate was allegedly assaulted as he walked on Bow Street Friday night...
...displayed near hummingbird feeders, and outdoor paint, in John Deere Green for antique tractor collections, fills the shelves. ATVs share the center aisle with shiny lawn mowers. Udder cream comes in pretty clover tins (women have discovered its charms for chapped lips), and lawn trinkets are the hot item for spring. In the pet center, an aluminum bin full of chirping baby chickens is adjacent to model plastic horses for the kids. "The 60-year-old farmer in his bib overalls is not buying toys for his pets," says Marty Terselic, Midwest regional store manager. "Their dogs work off their...
...exorbitant” price of music are also misplaced. If a consumer believes the cost of a particular item—a stereo, a bike, a pair of jeans—is too high, you would never turn that around as justification to shoplift the item. Why should music be any different? Moreover, the relative price of music has risen very little in recent decades when compared to most other forms of entertainment (such as movies and sporting events). Perhaps if consumers realized that record companies typically invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in each artist, and that they recover...
...Snoop Dogg to perform. Snoop’s management had already said yes. The contract was ready to be signed. It looked like Springfest was shaping up—until three weeks ago, when the Boston Police Department reminded Glazer and company of a budget line item they hadn’t foreseen. To get the proper security, they’d need an additional...