Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system will be put to a severe test on New Year's Eve, when tens of thousands of people will collect in and around Times Square to watch the lighted white ball drop from the Allied Chemical Tower at midnight. The presence of so many potential victims attracts a swarm of predators every year...
...property tycoons in Monopoly. As "trustbusting attorneys," they move around a board populated by such corporate giants as Egson Oil, Nazareth Steel, Major Electric, and ITD I, II and III. Their aim: slapping paper indictments on offending companies. Now and then, the brash young barristers win trustbusting bonuses and collect supervisory payments from other attorneys who happen to land on corporations already indicted. So that no unlucky player need sit in the corner while others wheel and deal, Anti-Monopoly ends when the first player runs out of ready cash...
That seemed a bearable load, with the TriStar flying and getting high ratings from airline executives-until the fuel shortage hit. Faced with sharp curtailments in jet-fuel supplies, airlines have canceled hundreds of flights and delayed orders for aircraft. Lockheed had expected to collect around $ 150 million in cash in 1974, as final payment on deliveries of nine TriStars to Eastern Air Lines; now the deliveries, and payments, have been postponed until 1975 and 1976. Pacific Southwest Airlines is taking a four-month delay on two more TriStars (price: $20 million each). On top of that, Japan...
There are other vital questions. Is this doctor conscientiously dedicated to giving the best possible care to his patients? Or is he giving merely routine -or worse-care to as many patients as he can crowd into a day's appointments, for all the cash he can collect? Here, clearly, the answers involve the most subjective value judgments. With rare exceptions, conscience and cash-consciousness are mixed in widely varying proportions. The one-snake staff of Aesculapius the healer-the official emblem of the American Medical Association-is obviously in conflict with the two-serpent caduceus of Mercury...
...drought has been going on four years now and it is literally wiping out some of these tribes," Wiedemann said last night. "The tanks we build should help them collect what little rainfall they...