Word: collected
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Vegetarians can turn to Science and learn of a breakthrough in genetics that may one day allow man to blend mangoes and melons and other combinations of fruits or vegetables. For animal fanciers, Environment tells of a zookeeper trying to collect as many of Eden's original inhabitants as possible. That is good news to anyone who has never seen an addax, or even an Arabian oryx...
...Daley abruptly postponed the session. He was evidently irritated by a McGovern interview in TIME last week, in which the candidate said that he had to make a "deliberate effort" to ask support from party regulars, an effort that was apt to "offend tender skins." But McGovern did collect a welcome bonus from another party regular; Lyndon Johnson broke his long silence by endorsing the Democratic ticket, even though he noted: "It is no secret that Senator McGovern and I have widely differing opinions on many matters, especially foreign policy." This week, McGovern will make a pilgrimage to the L.B.J...
...Securities and Exchange Commission proposes that the funds stop channeling their stock-trading business to the brokers who do best at selling fund shares. The SEC wants to remove any temptation for a broker to pressure his customers into buying fund shares so that the broker can collect juicy stock-trading business from the funds...
...result is a sort of Noah's park. Located in the Negev Desert, near the Jordanian border, the 8,000-acre Hai Bar reserve now contains about 100 species of biblical animals, many of them on the verge of extinction. To collect them, Yoffe undergoes almost biblical trials. Arab governments routinely refuse, for political reasons, to sanction the shipment of animals to Israel. Yoffe once got round this problem by paying Bedouin hunters in the Judean hills to catch him 15 Nubian ibexes, one by one. But he still yearns for a pair of wild Arabian oryxes (a kind...
...Because their medical insurance was deemed insufficient to pay all the expenses, the hospital got Mrs. Bubliatis to sign a guarantee-of-payment form for her husband's bills while she was still under, as Finz put it, "extreme physical and emotional stress." When the hospital sued to collect, the jury found in its favor, but Finz set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial. Said he: "A jury's verdict should stand undisturbed except when in so doing, an unconscionable result would remain that would be offensive to the professional sensitivities of the court...