Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour if the cost of living keeps rising at about its present pace. With that, the mechanics will not only keep their rank as the nation's top-paid industrial production workers (runners-up: oil workers, at $3.37 an hour), but will also collect more than civilian pilot instructors at U.S. Air Force bases, who average $3.60 an hour...
...another marathon session ending at 5 a.m., the Common Market had agreed on a financing system for price supports and export subsidies-of which France will collect about 45% -and for modernizing farming, which will benefit Italy the most. These and other agreements virtually complete the creation of what the French call Europe verte (a green Europe), which will formally sprout on July 1, 1968, the date when the last industrial tariffs among the Six are also scheduled to disappear...
...wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan's Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital nurses delayed Christopher's birth by pressing a towel against his head for twelve minutes-thus allowing the tardy doctor to arrive and collect his fee. As a result, the child allegedly suffered loss of oxygen to the brain. He will never be able to walk or talk or learn...
Rabbiters & Corpses. In South and Western Australia, census takers from Humbug Scrub to Boologooroo prowled the inner edge of the Great Australian Bight in search of opal gougers, oil drillers, boundary riders and randomly wandering rabbiters. One truck driver from Adelaide was asked to deliver and collect questionnaires on the lonely "No Tree" Plain when he went out to pick up rabbits from the wandering hunters. He got five tons of rabbits and 200 questionnaires...
...exercise "ordinary care" for his or her own safety. Such care is defined as what "the great mass of mankind" would ordinarily exercise in the same or similar circumstances. And in most states, juries are normally instructed that a plaintiff who fails to take such precautions may not collect; the plaintiff's negligence means the defendant gets off scot-free, which seems to be just what happened in Milwaukee. Once the jury received its instructions, it absolved Budner and withheld all damages for Mrs. Busick...