Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Horror. Harsh as these appraisals were, they sounded like popguns in comparison to the detonations that greeted his end-of-the-week budget message. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock all but kissed the U.S. goodbye. "Item by item," wrote Krock, "the budget reflects the weird and incessantly disproved economic theory that government can bestow all these material benefits without a grim reckoning at any time in the future. It is the death of a viable economy that is risked by the items which pile on the billions." Predicted the Omaha World-Herald: "If his proposed budget is adopted, America...
...Grant the President an "item veto" of appropriations measures-the power to veto a single appropriation without killing an entire bill...
That secrecy made a news item from Red China all the more interesting last week. Radio Peking trumpeted an announcement that Communist security forces had "wiped out" 172 commandos who had secretly landed in coastal Kwangtung province last fall. The Communists claimed that the interlopers planned to set up a "guerrilla corridor" in Kwangtung "to open the way for a subsequent military adventure of invading the mainland." To back up the story, Communist newspapers splashed front-page pictures of the captured agents and their stockpiles of U.S. rifles, grenades, and plastic demolition equipment...
...McNamara operates on the theory that the customer is not always right. When the Army and Navy wanted to standardize on a 12? brass belt buckle, the Air Force wanted silver and the Marines sought a 29? open-face buckle. General McNamara finally said it would be a 12? item - and black. "But why black? No one asked for black," complained one service aide. "Who the hell asked you?" replied McNamara. "You wanted a decision and you got it." He still wears the first black buckle issued...
...rain check is on its way to being a collector's item in Houston. Harris County voters have just approved a $9.6 million supplementary bond issue, bringing to $24.6 million the funds raised to complete the world's first domed, air-conditioned outdoor sports stadium...