Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen. Nevertheless, the settlement occurred only two months after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Orr vs. Orr, ruled that husbands could collect alimony. "This is the beginning of a trend," said Irwin's lawyer...
...even so, OPEC officials insist that there is nothing wanton or immoral about their policies. Cartel members point out that in Western Europe most governments still collect more in taxes on petroleum imports than OPEC does when it exports the crude. Eventually, everyone stands to lose. The world's poorest countries have borrowed so much to pay for oil that their accumulated indebtedness has risen to more than $210 billion. Such major U.S. lenders as Citicorp and Chase Manhattan have huge loans out to India, Pakistan, Turkey and many other countries. Fears are rising that sooner or later some borrowers...
Some other Exxon executives are less circumspect. Mused one to Tompkins: ''What we're playing is something like Monopoly, only the board has been changed around, and the dice are loaded. Every time you roll you go directly to jail, and whenever you do collect money it is in rials or yen. Worst of all, you have to play blindfolded while your opponents get to cheat and knock over the table in periodic rages...
...same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude gets to withdraw an equal amount from the pool. For example, a refinery that buys domestic oil for, say, $9.45 a bbl. would pay about $2.50 to the fund; a refinery that imports foreign oil for $14.55 would then collect that $2.50. Observes Oil Economist Arnold Safer: "The entitlements program, in effect, gives any company that imports OPEC oil $2.50 for absolutely nothing. The system creates a perverse incentive, just the opposite of what is really needed...
...example, the sexual clown, the man who used to do jokes about making obscene telephone calls to a girl, "collect," has now disappeared. Isaac Davis has his troubles with women, but he presents himself as a man who has "never had any trouble finding women." At the center of the film there is his relationship with a teen-age girl daringly presented in idealistic terms, an affair the old Allen would have made a guilty joke about and passed quickly over. Now he makes some guilty jokes but stays around to explore the affair and its meaning with tenderness...