Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Australia. Now King's realm is besieged. Stock in his King Resources Co. has collapsed from a high of $34 last year to $4.87 bid last week. Corporate officials concede that they are short of cash and having a hard time paying bills. Creditors have been pushing to collect some of the $23 million in loans that are coming due this year. Ordinarily, such a short-term debt would be easily managed by a company that lists assets of $177 million and had revenues of $118 million last year. A series of events has clouded King Resources in rumor...
There was a time when they were as ubiquitous as victory gardens, rationing coupons, or the vats of bacon grease that mothers used to collect as part of the war effort. In World War II, nearly every schoolchild saved his nickels and dimes for Government Defense Savings Stamps to paste in a book toward the day when he could purchase a $25 war bond. In the middle of the war, the nation raised as much as $540 million a year from the stamp program...
RICHARD and ELIZABETH BURTON, an older couple who have worked hard to convert themselves from stimulating theatricalities into citizens as solid, square-cut and clunky as the diamonds they collect. LEONARD BERNSTEIN, whose indisputable composing and conducting talents are so often obscured by his passion for lecturing audiences about the mystical significance of certain quarter notes. JOSEPH ALSOP, a columnist who has so often predicted U.S. victory in Indochina that it may come as a letdown to his readers if it actually occurs...
After that hearing, an organization of supporters of the manager is planning to collect signatures on a petition to put the manager issue to the city's voters at a special election...
...Americans and the longhaired young at times savors of Roundhead v. Cavalier, or H.G. Wells' Morlocks v. Eloi. How elemental the face-off can become was demonstrated last week in Monterey, Calif., when the state unemployment-insurance office ruled that jobless men with long hair can no longer collect unemployment benefits...