That one measure would have gone some distance toward addressing the other high-profile items on the Clinton agenda — reducing the deficit and reforming welfare.
Other stores mark down only a few high-profile items — even selling them at a loss — in hopes that customers will also throw a few full-priced items in their carts.
The high-profile items in question were timepieces by Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823), a Swiss who made his name mostly in Paris with innovations like the subscription watch, which had a single hand; the tact watch, whose face simply had to be touched for the wearer to tell the time; and the tourbillon regulator, which neutralized the effects of gravity on a watch's works.
For years the big old-line dealers and auctioneers like Stack's and Bowers & Merena organized and staged the coin world's biggest auctions, like the one at the American Numismatic Association annual meeting, where high-profile items went on the block.
These were the high-profile items, but there are plenty of other bad ideas which will now become law contained within the monster bill.
However, one writer on sickle cell states that while Nixon called for increased spending on such high-profile items as cancer and sickle cell, at the same time he sought to reduce overall spending at the National Institutes of Health as part of his general conservative approach to government.
In a hilarious fit of frustration he rants that even though he and his movie were the high-profile item, "Reservoir Dogs" won absolutely nothing.
The storm and its aftermath, Mr. Zukin added, is "just a big, big high-profile item that is out there that a week ago was unthinkable".
This year's high-profile item, also at the Guggenheim, was a single performance of Luigi Pirandello's "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)" with a glamorous cast directed by Francesco Vezzoli.
THE international commotion around the blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng aroused memories of earlier dissidents like Andrei D. Sakharov and Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the Eastern bloc heroes of another age who first made "international human rights" a rallying cry for activists across the globe and a high-profile item on Western governments' agendas.
