Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that might severely damage their long-nurtured images in the public eye. "Everyone who went out to buy a toaster," cracked a Government lawyer, "would think he was being overcharged." Furthermore, such a plea might discourage manufacturers who had purchased the price-fixed equipment from bringing civil suits to collect the triple damages allowed under the law. Reason: a nolo plea, unlike a guilty plea, cannot be used as an admission of guilt in a civil court, and evidence would have to be gathered all over again. If the aggrieved manufacturers collected, the damages might run to tens of millions...
Over the years, parting with animals became such a wrenching affair for Gerald that he finally decided to collect a zoo of his own. This book is his blithe-spirited account of a six-month collector's safari in Bafut, a mountain grasslands kingdom in the Cameroons in British West Africa...
...issue because it agreed with what I think. This is partly true; but, much more, you hit every good sidelight on the head, as well as describing the broad flow of the election itself. To do this as shrewdly and entertainingly as you did is one thing; to collect, edit, write, print and distribute the whole thing in little over a day is tremendous...
...pursued the subject with an obsession that earned her a Phi Beta Kappa key as a junior, every cash prize open to economics students ("I went out for them because we needed the money") and graduation magna cum laude in 3½ years. But Sylvia was not around to collect her diploma. "The point is the winning, the achievement," says Sylvia. "Being there didn't matter. I had no compulsion to say, 'Look...
...contradictory attitudes toward the Electra represented the ambiguous position of Braniff-and other airlines-in the face of rising concern about the plane. Egged on by its lawyers, Braniff was trying to collect damages for the crash. At the same time, Braniff was working with Northwest, National and American Airlines to counteract public worry over the plane's safety, sending out "truth squads" of pilots who are sold on the Electra...