Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech she had made in New York, details of her meeting with Vietnamese Communists in Paris in 1972. Colby conceded that some of this information gathering "may not be appropriate today." He said obscurely that the CIA would not keep a "continuing file" on her but would still collect material on U.S. citizens engaged in what he termed "questionable" political activities. Snapped Bella: "You say you're not going to do it any more, and yet you are going...
...course, the situation is quite unlike the apple-selling days of the Great Depression, when one in every four workers was desperately, hopelessly unemployed and practically no safety nets protected them. Today, 6 million of the jobless are collecting unemployment compensation. The payments are made for up to 52 weeks. The states pay for the first 26 weeks, raising the money by taxing employers; the states and the Federal Government share the costs for the next 13 weeks, and Washington finances the final 13 weeks. The amount of the payments and the eligibility for them vary from state to state...
Just about everybody has some extra cushions, though they are becoming thin and frayed. Most (but not all) jobless auto workers collect supplemental unemployment benefits of just under 95% of their basic pay. But Chrysler Corp.'s SUB funds are expected to run out by early April and General Motors' by mid-May. Other unemployed people are drawing down their bank savings and selling off stocks. In sum, few people are totally destitute yet, but there could be spreading poverty and grave social trouble if high unemployment persists...
...varying ways, the unemployed are learning how to cope. Jobless Viet Nam veterans are signing up in record numbers for college or vocational courses to collect G.I. Bill benefits, which pay $270 a month for a single person. After collecting their food stamps at the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, some of the unemployed stop at nearby vacant lots-to pick wild mustard greens. A laid-off Chrysler senior engineer, James Howard, 44, has become a Mr. Fixit, going round his neighborhood in Detroit to repair furnaces, rehabilitate appliances and install storm windows that he builds. Norman Sanders...
Byker said the preceptors will collect and coordinate different methods of teaching and will help the part-time teachers improve their instruction...