Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistake. The book sold 400,000 copies. The net result is that my son has spent two years on safari in Africa and skiing in Austria, while I've been working my fingers to the bone. The least he might do is to stop calling me from Austria, collect." O.K., Dad, but how far do you expect a guy to stretch...
Perhaps the most persistent problem confronting Common Market negotiations has been how to collect and pay out huge sums for farm subsidies among the Market's six nations as they unify their agricultural systems with common prices behind a common tariff. Indus trial West Germany was, for obvious reasons, reluctant to agree on high farm subsidies. And farm-rich France was not about to agree to anything that might deprive the French farmer of so much...
Johnson's bill would outlaw discrimination on either racial or religious grounds in the "purchase, rental, lease, financing, use and occupancy" of all housing. Violation would not be a criminal offense, but victims of discrimination could seek a court order forcing the owner to rent or sell-and collect up to $500 from him "for humiliation and mental pain...
...intelligence can raid the Big Ones for interviews and contributions; it would seem that the Island's evident weakness--its mimeographed format and tiny circulation--is a hidden asset when it deals with genuinely kind people like Auden. But it takes a lot of wit and perseverence to collect as impressive an issue as this one; Shaw, Plotz a Co. have done it well and quietly. I hope they persist...
...better bargains for buyers. > When a customer arranges new-car credit through his dealer, the lending institution usually rebates part of the finance charges on the car back to the dealer. For his finder's fee on a three year $3,000 loan, for example, a dealer can collect as much as $180. Some dealers, especially in California, sell cars at cost or even below and make all their profits on finance rebates...