Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lees can collect as many as 500 cans a day, which they sell for about $20 to a salvage dealer near their home in San Diego. But they profess not to be worried about the low monetary return. Says Clemert Lee: "Cleaning up America is better than sitting at home twiddling my thumbs...
...times in her life, she has suffered from depressions, insomnia and other problems and, in fact, quit psychoanalysis last fall after eight years of therapy four times a week. She is happiest when left alone to write and complains that success can be lethal. "People always want to collect you for cocktail parties and take you to bed," she says. They have also inundated her with letters spelling out ultimate secrets. Notes Jong: "The whole thing makes me feel like Miss Lonelyhearts in Nathanael West's novella." A self-styled feminist, she recalls the day a high school...
...companies, among them Du Pont, Union Carbide and U.S. Steel; it plans to increase its list to 20 stocks before long. Early investor interest was high, and Amex officials hope to do at least as well with options as the Chicago Board Options Exchange. C.B.O.E. members now collect commissions on an average daily volume of 40,000 option sales. Partly as a result, the price of seats on the C.B.O.E. has jumped from $10,000 to $40,000 in just 21 months...
Naturally, the Saudis are piling up the biggest surpluses. At present prices and production levels, they will collect a staggering $150 billion over the next five years. But they will be unable to buy or build fast enough to use up even one-third of their oil money on domestic development. By 1980, they stand to have well over $100 billion in surplus?to lend, give away or invest in foreign countries...
...football since 1971, when Rozelle banned him from the league for refusing to sign a standard player's contract. He then brought suit contending he was being denied the right to practice his profession. His case must now go to trial to determine damages. If his lawyers can collect even half of what they are claiming, Kapp could hit the N.F.L. for $5 million...