Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...study sponsored and paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, there is a disturbingly solid basis for the doubts that come to every giver as he shells out-where does the money really go? Aren't there too many hand's out? Is this the best way to collect and spend the public's money...
...worthy projects it has aided around the world, UNESCO has had few to compare with the one it was busy on last week: the raising of a Pharaoh. It started passing the hat among members of the United Nations to collect $75 million for a daring and imaginative attempt to save the impressive, rock-cut Temple of Abu Simbel near the southern border of Egypt, where for 3,000 years four colossal figures of Pharaoh Ramses II have looked out imperturbably over the Nile. Cut into the living rock are great chambers and corridors decorated with spirited bas-reliefs...
Such plans infringe on A.M.A.'s oldest tenets: that doctors should be paid a fee for each service and that patients and doctors should choose each other freely. Fully organized health plans collect from patients on insurance principles, pay their doctors salaries or shares, and assign patients to qualified specialists. A.M.A. fought group plans for years; the surrender was a belated recognition by A.M.A.'s scientific element that these systems can and do give good results. Out of such challenges and accommodations comes 1961's ferment of change in the relation between doctors and patients...
...regarded the succession of "hot issues" born there as just a way for some insiders to make a fast buck. Several mutual funds have been sued over the large fees they pay advisers, and mutual fund salesmen are widely regarded on the Street as men who sell stocks (and collect high commissions) much as door-to-door salesmen peddle Christmas cards. As for the American Exchange, many Wall Streeters feel that President Edward McCormick has spent too much time drumming up business and not enough keeping his house tidy; they expect questioning to be sharp when he appears before...
Still, the Task Force's first assault on Russia won a Pulitzer Prize, and what had begun on impulse became a habit. "It beats hell out of sitting around the office," said Bill Hearst as he and his pals prowled the global beat, collecting heads of state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser...