Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Office of Education is also empowered to collect defaulted loans. If a regular payment is overdue by more than 180 days, the government repays the lender and undertakes to collect the full amount of principal and interest...
...smirking TV crew crowded into the local beauty shop, where business was booming. "No reason to get concerned over this conference," jeered a Miguel Pereira attorney. "It's mostly for women to give vent to their vanity." Sniffed a local garbage man: "If they want equality, let them collect garbage...
SUNSHINE. Theoretically, the sun's energy ought to be usable, but no one is sure how best to collect sunshine and transform it into power. In answer, Aden and Marjorie Meinel of the University of Arizona have proposed a "solar farm" that would cover 5,500 sq. mi. of desert with rows of black steel bands. These would absorb the sun's heat and send it to large storage "batteries" of molten salt, which would power turbine generators. Cost of building a 3,000-kw. demonstration plant: $10 million. Despite the amount of land that such projects would...
...Koupal and his wife Joyce. Originally, back in 1969, they set out only to fight Los Angeles smog. "I couldn't believe people could really live in that air," says Joyce Koupal. "My first reaction was, 'Why don't they outlaw it?' " The Koupals began collecting signatures for an unsuccessful antismog petition, but when the Federal Government announced its own rules against air pollution, they decided to broaden their campaign. Says Koupal: "We began asking ourselves, 'Why should we go out and collect signatures for just one issue? You might as well go after them...
...park lay virtually useless until recently, when antiwar demonstrators chose to break down the fence, chop up the asphalt and plant shrubbery and flowers. Slowly students and townspeople drifted back into the park; they set up a recycling center to collect bottles and cans, and settled down to enjoy the spring air. This time reaction was prudent. The cops ignored the occupation and Chancellor Albert Bowker seems not to want to press the issue...