Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local headquarters of the Office of Economic Opportunity's neighborhood action program, which is pressing for low-cost housing over old-line opposition. On the 1st and 15th of every month, long sad queues of weary mothers and scraggly children stand on the street all day to collect food stamps. The young are displaced persons in El Monte. "There is nothing to do here," says good-looking Tina Chassi, 25. "If I go out on a date, we go out of town...
State residency requirements have been eliminated. This allows people to collect support where they are living without a minimum duration of residency. In Massachusetts, 65 per cent of recipients have always lived here, and of the 11 per cent who migrated from the South, the majority have been here for years...
...consolation tournaments complicate matters. If Fish beat Berry in the opening round, Berry could still collect more points if he won the consolation tournament and Fish was eliminated in the championship tournament in the third round...
...Treaty must be used as a basis for informing, leafletting and converting people to opposition of the war," he says, and then pauses, looks down, tries to collect his thoughts. You know he's deadly tired. (For as you walk in he's saying to the press agent, "You mean those last guys weren't from a radio? That's why I thought I had to e-nun-ciate into their tape recorder. I wanted to be sure they'd get the stuff.") While he also seems to be sincerely troubled-as he repeats his case for the 11th time...
Epstein then admitted, however, that since as a "public figure" he would find it difficult or impossible to collect damages for libel. Frost's defense of his racial attitudes was superfluous...