Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strength & Weakness. After five years in power the Reds have achieved control over the Chinese people, but they have won neither their allegiance nor understanding. Item: "The production sentiment of the peasants lacks stability," said a recent Communist cadre report, "and their understanding of the new production relations is obscure." Item: of the 20,440 Chinese captured by the U.N. in Korea, a devastating 14,209 refused to go home. The first wave of enthusiasm among China's landless millions, among many intellectuals and young Chinese, has waned severely. Land reform became not a matter of justice...
...item that cannot be overlooked or even postponed in planning summer travel abroad is a passport. Since ten days is the minimum period for having one unprocessed, immediate application is necessary. Passports can be obtained in Boston--with the aid of a certified birth certificate, two photographs, and a 21-year old witness who's known the applicant for three years--in the Main Post Office Building at Post Office Square...
...autonomy, and repeatedly emphasize that their magazine is in no sense a "house organ of the Dean's office." Joseph R. Hamlen '04, President and Publisher of the Bulletin since 1927, for example, recalls telling more than one University president the magazine could not carry an editorial or news item in exactly the form the president wanted. On the whole, however, there has been little conflict between the Bulletin and the University, and Hamlen characterizes their relationship as that of "pleasant playmates...
...nation was at war in 1941 when Section 608 was written. Created under the title "War Housing Insurance" it was aimed at meeting the pressing needs for middle priced dwellings. Time, not money, was the short item, and the government turned to the private builder to get the job done quickly. At the same time, it wrote the builder a code of minimum standards that was not as stiff as the one governing public construction. With this flexibility, the private contractor was able to cut certain costs and build more cheaply than the government itself could. But even if private...
...next step is the choice of which items are going to run in the magazine. Apart from editorial preference, part of the elimination comes in checking. An item may fall in the wastebasket because the facts do not check, or because it may turn out to be weeks or months old. There was, for example, an item from Arkansas that looked fine on paper: in South Africa, forest rangers had a problem with leopards, which were eating all the pigs, which had been imported to eat caterpillars, which had been eating pine trees, and the rangers still needed the leopards...