Word: itemizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bureau Chief William Rademaekers followed Brown one day last week as the Governor took his message to varied groups of voters. Boarding the chartered Learjet at Los Angeles, Brown first flipped through the morning papers, stopping at a story that reported unemployment statistics down. Jabbing his finger at the item, he said, "Government is flattening out. The private sector is pushing forward." Noting that corporate profits in California are double the national average, he said he expects the 1979 state surplus to be as large as this year's. So despite all the grim forebodings, no sharp cutbacks in public...
...answer period students inquire about calendar reform, dining hall renovations, and student efforts to end University funding for the Radcliffe Union of Students. Administrators perfunctorily answer the questions, usually somewhat awkwardly. The time alloted to the question-and-answer period runs out, and Rosovsky moves on to the next item on the agenda, strictly adhering to time limits for each...
Only once before has there been a national postal strike. During a crippling two-week walkout in 1970, President Nixon called in federal troops, and discovered that soldiers could protect the mail but not deliver very much of it. Avoiding a similar calamity this week became the No. 1 item on the Government agenda...
...journalist in a medium where economic news is usually relegated to some place between the weather forecast and the cough syrup ads. Wearing one of his Rukeyser Enterprises hats, the WSW moderator is a hot item on the lecture circuit, where he gives about 100 speeches a year, com mands a top fee (at least $4,000 per appearance) and is booked through next May. He also turns out a thrice-weekly column on politics and economics that appears in 170 newspapers, has written one bestseller (How to Make Money in Wall Street) and is preparing another book on economic...
...other chimp could see the varied delicacies. Spontaneously, without any prodding by the investigators, he would punch out his request and, more often than not, his buddy would comply. At first Sherman, older and apparently more quick-witted, seemed to make "errors." When asked to share an especially tasty item-say, chocolate-he occasionally ignored the request, seemed to feign ignorance or proffered something less desirable...