Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Likewise on Friday. If you find something good, call me up (collect, of course) and tell me about it. Don't call me at 11 a.m. because I'll be busy taking a test then...
...Somali hatred for the Ethiopians could hardly be more intense. Husein Liban, a Jijiga elder, recalls how the Somali nomads once killed an Ethiopian policeman who tried to collect a tax that they regarded as unfair. In revenge, he recalls, they "took 35 of our people and shot them. They would cut the breasts of our women to prevent them from suckling our young. When the fighting increased, the Ethiopians took 150 of our people as hostages. They shot them all, including my brother Odowa." Liban proudly claims to have been a guerrilla for 31 of his 71 years. "There...
...overall expense of affirmative action is incalculable. The University of Utah, for example, estimates its annual cost of maintaining compliance records at $100,000 a year. Yet enforcement is mostly a matter of exhortations or threats. Although the Office of Federal Contract Compliance says it has helped discrimination victims collect $159 million in back pay, only 15 of 30,000 businesses dealing with the Federal Government have ever lost a federal contract because of race or sex discrimination, and no university has lost...
...local hiring halls by inserting a plastic card into an IBM computer and lounge around for a while. By 9 a.m. the unlucky ones have gone to work; the others can go home to watch TV or moonlight on a second job-and still collect full base pay ($64 per day). That undemanding life is largely the result of a combination of two forces: the rise of container ships, which has greatly reduced the need for dock labor, and the success of the International Longshoremen's Association in negotiating supergenerous pay guarantees for dockers who no longer have much...
William G. Perry, director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, offers a different sort of advice: don't restrict yourself to a rigid approach to the subject while doing research. "English teachers said to outline, but that's not how the mind works," says Perry. "You need to collect data and mess around with it, until the thoughts come out of the material...