Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walzer said the new organization will engage in "intellectual and educational" activity, form a socialist caucus within the Democratic Party, and "try to collect the remnants of the Left and organize around common problems...
...Emma Wygal of La Habra, Calif., was owed some past-due payments on a land sale, and she asked a young local lawyer to collect them for her. He did, and charged her only $5 for his services. The year was 1939, and the fledgling attorney was Richard Nixon. Not long ago, a group of La Habra citizens concluded that the site of that transaction ought to be preserved, so they collected some money, titled themselves Nixon Law Office Preservation, Inc., and applied to the California Historical Landmarks Advisory Committee to have the building designated a historic landmark...
...tight supply in many parts of the world, there is no genuine scarcity of beef on the hoof in this nation. The U.S. now has 2% more cattle on feed and 6% more breeding cows than at this time last year. Ranchers and feed-lot operators can collect alltime high prices for their animals but are holding them off the market, betting that they will be worth as much as 20% more when the freeze is off. The average price per hundredweight of cattle jumped from $29 in 1971 to $33.50 last year; now it is well above $45, with...
...Japanese business success in Europe, as elsewhere, is the result of careful, detailed planning and attention to what the consumer wants. For example, automaking Toyota began its marketing drive in 1961. Analysts from all departments were sent abroad to collect information on weather conditions, lifestyles, laws and regulations, income levels, road conditions, competition, driving habits and economic and political policies. To gain publicity and technical knowledge through competition with European cars, Toyota's export council ordered participation in international auto shows and rallies. Sales rose steadily-from...
...passionate about his motherland, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 40, spends a lot of time outside the U.S.S.R. Wandering in the Far East to collect material for two new cycles of poems, he visited Singapore, where he gave a reading of "Cemetery of Whales" for a hastily assembled group of 20 university students. Apparently referring to recent criticism of him as a subsidized apologist for the Soviet regime, he declared: "I am a writer, never was and never will be an official representative of my country." The week before, the tall, skinny poet had paid a visit to the Philippines, where...