Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that they have decided to add no more children to their present two. Besides that, says Dawn, "we budgeted the food shopping so that no snacks, no beer and especially no McDonald's are on the list." Even so, they could not meet the payments if Patrick did not collect frequent overtime pay in his job as supervisor of a record company warehouse...
...outside diversions except an occasional golf game, tinkering with grandfather clocks, and a periodic chaw of Red Man chewing tobacco. His capacity for work is remarkable, and he keeps his docket unusually current. If an attorney fails to file papers on time, Johnson is apt to call him personally-collect...
...profamily, pro-work" welfare reform bill, which aims to get people off the dole and encourage them to work (TIME, Aug. 15). By offering cash grants to the so-called working poor, it encourages underclass fathers to stay in the home instead of leaving so that their families can collect welfare. The plan offers tax incentives for those who find jobs in the private sector instead of public service. For those who cannot, it proposes to create 1.4 million positions in training programs and in service jobs such as assisting teachers, providing child care, controlling rats and escorting the aged...
Some people collect coins, others butterflies. Arthur C. Piepkorn collected religious denominations, large and small, and if there were contests in such things, he would have been world champion. It all began when he taught a survey course on religious bodies at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, and ripened into an obsession when the book house of his own denomination, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, asked him to redo its standard reference work in the field...
...could the walkout occur in an industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under...