Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...region will be divided into 2 1/2-acre grids for research purposes. The team members will then collect a diversity of information about the soil, wildlife, current land use and exact location of each grid and feed it into a computer. After the designers have planned changes in the region, the computer will simulate the effects of these alterations allowing the team to see regional patterns...
...hour of "documentaries" about Angela. The radio broadcasts the latest bulletin about a protest rally in Tanzania or some other faraway spot. When Miss Davis was released on bail, East Germans took undue credit for springing her. East German children study about Angela in school. Students and youth groups collect money for her defense fund. In cities across the country, billboard posters and banners repeat one demand: Freedom for Angela. At the Leipzig Fair, one of Europe's oldest industrial exhibitions, the East Germans have put up a large display about Angela in the modernistic information center. Visitors...
...robber baron proud. As part of her first loan, she had agreed to have the bank set up an inviolable and irrevocable trust fund for her, which would receive the bulk of her inheritance. Her lawyers therefore argued that her creditors, who all knew about the trust, could not collect from any of the funds...
...operating costs. Independent experts are skeptical about these cost figures, but a garbage converter would be valuable even if it does not operate at a profit. San Diego County, which is weighing the pyrolysis experiment, presently produces 3,500 tons of garbage per day, spends $12 per ton to collect and haul it to the dump, and like most American cities, it is running out of dumping space...
...Servicemen's Mutual Aid and Savings Fund (SMASF), which was financed by dunning every soldier 25? a month. Initially, Vy's goal was to encourage savings so that the soldiers would have some money to spend when mustered out. In theory, each army veteran was to collect all the SMASF money deducted from his paychecks, plus interest; similar payments were to go to the families of those killed in action. But bookkeeping at SMASF has bee?n loose, and many families have had difficulty claiming the cash owed to them. SMASF accumulated $9,600,000, but only...