Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Walter Mondale told TIME last week. "They are just running, people out of the country." Hong Kong government officials say that the trade in human lives has replaced coal as Hanoi's principal source of gold and hard currency. According to some Hong Kong estimates, Hanoi could collect as much as $3 billion before its Chinese population is completely expelled...
...launches from Tyuratam. Before the fall of the Shah, the U.S. relied largely on nearby listening posts in Iran. When those installations were ransacked by supporters of Ayatullah Khomeini, the U.S. had to fall back on four electronic ground stations in Turkey - and a request for permission to collect additional data by U-2 missions along the Turkish-Soviet border. The Turkish government has said it will grant permission only if the Kremlin does not object. Brezhnev made no promises but was encouraging. He knows that ratification of SALT II could turn on the Senate's confidence about verification...
...outgrowth of concerts Westenburg organized as choirmaster of Manhattan's Central Presbyterian Church. Encouraged because the decision to charge admission had doubled audiences, the group incorporated as an independent entity in 1973 and progressed rapidly toward bankruptcy. The trouble was that Westenburg tried to do everything himself: collect texts, read program proofs, deliver checks to the musicians' union. Finally, with help from the New York State Council on the Arts, he hired an administrator, assembled a board of trustees and learned the ways of fund raising ("We'd invite people to dinner and then sock...
...determined fellow booked a single-day odyssey starting in Cleveland and whipping through Youngstown, Akron, Youngstown (again), Pittsburgh and back to Cleveland to collect five coupons. Ads offering top dollar for coupons have appeared in newspapers. Coupon traders flocked to airports, and last week the going price jumped from $5 to $20. The Federal Government, the state of California and many corporations have insisted that employees clip coupons to their expense accounts...
...town with his wife Rachel to talk to Egyptian officials about opening the borders between their two countries. At one point a storeowner proudly showed him a copy of a pharaonic deity. "It's very nice," said Dayan, an accomplished archaeologist, "but I don't collect replicas...