Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a quite remarkable attitude of benevolence towards machines, the more big and complex the better, since these are hailed as the potential liberators of all drudgery. If the "economic crisis" is how to "distribute the garbage" and the "political crisis" no more than "who's going to collect the garbage and why should anyone want the job" then is not the answer simply to make a machine that takes care of all the garbage...
...Puppet authorities issue identification cards to Highlanders with the purpose of levying taxes on them. Each I.D. cardholder pays 20 piasters. If five I.D. holders pay their taxes, how much money do puppet authorities collect? >Fifty youths at a school in North Viet Nam enlisted as volunteers to fight the American monsters in South Viet Nam during the morning. Forty more volunteered in the afternoon. On that day, how many youths volunteered? > Three antihelicopter teams meet to review their accomplishments. In the past year, the three teams shot down a total of 18 helicopters. Team One shot down six. Team...
...basis of last week's offer, Howard Hughes did not look like a savior in Goldenson's eyes. According to the tender put together by Loeb, Rhoades (which should collect at least $500,000 in fees if the proposition goes through), Hughes would buy ABC shares at $74.25 apiece. That would be about $15 above the market price when the offer was first made, although the Hughes magic started ABC share values spinning last week, and the stock closed the week at 68 1/4, up ten points. A major objection from the network's viewpoint is that...
...tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments, a lower court awarded him $37,000. The state appealed. Dennison, it said, deserved less money because there was no law that allowed him to collect such noise damages. Last week, in a surprising 4-to-3 decision, New York's Court of Appeals upheld the lower court and declared that noise was indeed a compensable injury...
...Negro specialists rarely receive referrals from white doctors. Black doctors who do manage to achieve staff status almost never move up into administrative positions. Those who practice privately must often arrange through white colleagues to have their patients admitted to a hospital. There, white doctors often take over-and collect...