Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-made personality," she says. The product of a straight bourgeois background, she has propelled herself to the point where she is now the wife of a fashionable Roman architect and mother of a three-year-old boy ("An earthquake; he's so handsome"), can afford to collect shoes (70 pairs) and furs (14, including six mink), drive a Maserati and learn to fly. Best of all, having been discovered abroad, she finds herself big box office at home...
Seafaring admiralty libelants (plaintiffs) have so many advantages that Dailey might well have expected to collect. Shipowners are simply no legal match for seamen, whose unique hardships long ago won them unique protection as "the wards of admiralty...
...mass of speculators. Investment in Scotch whisky, once highly specialized, has become so widespread that the Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that it will move to impose controls on it. Investors buy the raw whisky by the barrel, wait while it ages for three years or longer, often collect a 100% profit when it is finally sold to bottlers. For $1,000, those who want to be angels can buy a 1% share in the North American rights to a low-budget European bedroom comedy or spy thriller, can look forward to doubling their money if the movie...
...equipment will keep temperatures under the dome in the moderate 70s, and will also clear away cigarette and cigar smoke so that outfielders can see a baseball 550 ft. away. The air conditioners will operate continuously; if the motors were turned off between games, so much humidity would collect under the dome that rain would fall indoors...
...construction, adding approximately $5 million to the City's tax base, enabled Curry to lower the rate and still collect the higher revenue...