Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that all snooping relies on dazzling modern means; some is downright oldfashioned. Certain Government agencies have an arrangement with the Washington, D.C., garbagemen to collect the garbage of people under investigation, and deliver it for grubby examination...
...price of labor rises, and the Government's 3.2% wage guideline is being shattered with impunity. Last week a presidential mediation panel authorized a 3.5% increase to 35,000 airline machinists. Plumbers in San Francisco two weeks ago won an 8% rise to $8.23 an hour, now collect more than most doctors for a house call-at least...
...area. "They're going to have to make some attempt because they badly need a victory," explained a U.S. officer in Saigon. "They need to wipe out an American battalion. But they realize the size of the force it would take to do that, and every time they collect that many men they...
Washington's generosity on the one hand and its many strictures on the other have driven some states to near schizophrenia: holding one hand outstretched to collect the federal loot and the other clenched to punch the federal snoot. The fact is that the Federal Government needs to do many things that the states cannot-or will not-do by themselves and that the states and localities badly need the money that comes from Washington. Since 1946, state and local spending has soared sixfold, to nearly $100 billion a year-twice what Washington spends on domestic affairs...
...when Common Market ministers meeting in Brussels finally agreed on a plan that will go into effect in 1968 and pay up to $1.5 billion annually to French wheat growers, Dutch dairy men, Italian fruit and vegetable farmers, and Belgian beet-sugar producers to subsidize their exports. France will collect 40% to 45% of this total. Funds for these payments will be raised in equal parts from duties on farm imports from outside the Common Market and from payments by the treasuries of the Six, in a proportion of 32% from France, 31.2% from Germany and lesser amounts from...