Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bill, to 1) write down the initial number of employees in the new department, and 2) put the list in an envelope, along with a $100 bill. "I'll put in a $100 bill too," said Ev, "and if this thing doesn't grow, you'll collect the $100." It was no bet. "You'd collect it," retorted Ribicoff, "because this Congress will be voting new programs." And, he argued, the nation needs them. "When our Constitution was adopted," Ribicoff said, "only five per cent of our people lived in urban areas. Today, 70% of Americans...
...their hard luck. They don't know that even if they're on patrol in Viet Nam, and their rifle goes boom and injures them because it's defective, they can sue the guy that manufactured it." To hear Belli tell it, he could collect damages for the families of the men lost when the nuclear submarine Thresher went down...
...northern Wisconsin, where temperatures have been known to drop as low as -31° in winter. The school was built with a minimum of outside windows and lots of fluorescent lights, all of which have built-in ducts that trap over 60% of their heat.* The ducts also collect the heat produced by the students' bodies-which is surprisingly high. One average-size incumbent 15-year-old throws off more heat than a 100-watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep...
...Vice President Joseph Molony and Secretary-Treasurer Walter Burke, feel considerable pressure from their own rank and file to settle peaceably. Under an interim agreement, management has been putting in escrow 11.50 an hour for every steelworker since May 1, and once the contract is signed, each worker will collect about $80-enough to buy a portable TV set or put a down payment on a used car. Abel himself is eager to make a statesmanlike impression in his first real test since wresting the presidency from Dave McDonald, knows that a reasonably sweet settlement would enhance his reputation...
...Jewelsmith Georges Fouquet for her première in Cleopatra, went in hock (she was frequently broke, though her earnings topped $9,000,000) for about $2,000 to have it. To make sure she paid, Fouquet turned up at the theater box office regularly each week to collect his share of the receipts...