Word: collected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scarce to divert $150,000 into a transition that might never take place, Carter simply told Watson to keep plowing ahead. Working 18-hour days behind his glass desk in Atlanta, Watson had personally interviewed and selected a team of 18 coordinators, most of them in their 30s, to collect the best ideas and judgments they could from top persons around the country. Watson visited with hundreds of top sources: former Cabinet officers, White House staffers, heads of the country's large foundations...
Poutasse said he decided to wait four weeks before renting a truck to collect the papers so there would be enough for a large pick-up. But he also said he did not have enough time in the beginning of the year to organize the program...
...They collect all sorts of names without the slighest idea how well they would fill the job or if the president would be interested in them," Katz said. "The list is so speculatory that there is no obligation to inform people on the list that they are under consideration, he said...
...which this year meant over 39,000, compared to the 1000 they need in New Hampshire. Given that fact that some signatures will always be invalid for one reason or another--the most common one being that voters think they are registered and aren't--opposition parties have to collect many more than that, and even then may not get on the ballot...
Another problem small parties have in common is their inability to collect the initial contributions needed to qualify for federal funds. Although McCarthy supporters claim his success in garnering votes may aid opposition parties seeking matching grants in 1980, their hopes don't extend to this election. The socialist parties obviously aren't likely to attract big business, and even the more conservative parties have trouble since, as Paul Seidman, New York coordinator for the McCarthy campaign, says, larger contributors see campaign gifts as investments, and don't see opposition parties as likely to give them much return on their...