Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest-ticket R. and D. item is Reagan's Space Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars. The Administration wants to increase research funding for the SDI from $1.4 billion this year to $3.7 billion in 1986 and spend a whopping $30 billion during the next six years. Because a space-based defense system is still highly speculative, the research encompasses a dizzying array of technologies, like electromagnetic "rail guns" to fire projectiles at extremely high speeds across hundreds of miles of space and particle accelerators to hit a missile with a stream of atoms traveling near the speed...
...item in question was not precisely a toilet seat but a corrosion- resistan t plastic case that fits over a toilet. It is used aboard the Navy's P-3C Orion antisubmarine planes. Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, which looks into suspected cost overruns, had been conducting an investigation of the accessory. Roth was tipped off by a contractor in Washington State who had been asked to bid on the toilet unit in January. When the contractor learned that Lockheed Corp. was charging $34,560 for 54 toilet covers, he wrote a letter...
...Minister the cheapest available honey, as I explained to him. He immediately wanted to know the price, which he thought was high, and then the cost of other goods--better honey, shirts, Manhattan apartments. As Dobrynin and I answered his questions, Gromyko expressed surprise at the expense of each item. He had never visited American stores and knew barely anything of the costs or real standard of living...
...least popular item in the budget. Yet despite withering reductions in domestic programs, funding for foreign aid has risen from $5 billion to more than $18 billion since Ronald Reagan took office. Under heavy pressure to hold down spending, the Administration this week is proposing to freeze the total amount of aid for next year. But its fiscal 1986 budget includes hefty rises in military assistance to Egypt and Israel; added to that will be an undetermined amount to meet Israel's unresolved request for more economic aid. To accommodate these increases, at least $1 billion will have...
Duarte responded by vetoing what he considered to be objectionable parts of the bill. However, El Salvador's 13-month-old constitution does not make an allowance for such line-item vetoes by the chief executive. Thus the assembly ignored Duarte's action and went ahead and published the original version of the bill. As the country waited for the court's ruling, which could come within days, on Duarte's claim that he has the right of selective veto, the elections were postponed until March...