Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allah Said No." Next day Cassius turned up for another press conference to take care of one last item of business. Weeks before, he had promised reporters a "whole new personality" if he won the title. Now Clay rummaged around in his bag of tricks. And what did he come up with? A white rabbit? No-a Black Muslim. Cassius used to be a Protestant. No longer. He had joined the militantly antiwhite Negro sect. "My religion is Islam," he said, "and I am proud of it. Followers of Allah are the sweetest people in the world. They...
Some 75 new items are included in the revised 400-item index, as a result of a survey of 12,000 families in 66 cities. Among the new items: funeral costs, home-and auto-finance charges, hotel-motel rates, snack prices, parking fees, college tuitions, and the prices of textbooks, magazines and paperback books. Among the prices that have been dropped are those for such items as rolled oats, men's work gloves and lemons, which have become less significant in the family budget of the 1960s...
Compromise. The debate stems from the U.S. Trade Expansion Act, passed under President Kennedy, which per mits the U.S. to bargain for sharply lower tariffs on whole families of prod ucts instead of negotiating by item. As a result, the Western industrial powers planned the impending round of tariff negotiations, and whatever cuts they agree upon will be extended to all 58 members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT...
Following the Marshall Plan's precepts, the German government allows the money to be invested only in needed ventures. One nonutilitarian item is deducted each year from the fund. It is a Dankesspende (gift of thanks) to the American people, which this year amounts to $330,000 and will provide one year's free study for 60 U.S. students in West Germany...
Help for Housewives. Since meat is the biggest single item in the U.S. food bill (about 25? out of every dollar), one beneficiary of the current situation is the U.S. housewife. Retail beef prices slipped 2% to an average 81? per Ib. last year, and the dip is expected to continue for a while. But Government experts also reckon that the cattlemen's troubles are only temporary. The beef business historically runs in cycles; when prices hold low, cattlemen sooner or later have to thin their herds, marginal operators drop out-and prices begin to recover. Besides...