Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creature of the Tube," said Carol Burnett, 38, arriving in New York to collect her award from the Friars Club as Entertainer of the Year. Weren't her naughty-lady movie takeoffs risqué? "Not compared with those dirty soap operas. We're G-rated compared to daytime TV." Does she have a second career in mind? "I should say a stunt woman in stag movies. But I'd really like to be a schoolteacher for kids, six to eight. They haven't heard all my jokes...
...inevitable, however. As Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz said at Nassau: "We must struggle against these projections so that they do not become accurate predictions." Another projection shows that between now and 1980 the oil-producing nations of the Middle East and North Africa alone stand to collect a quarter-trillion dollars for their natural riches, nearly all of it from Western Europe, Japan and the U.S. In fact, some of the smaller Middle Eastern nations are already accumulating funds roughly twice as fast as they can spend them. Marvels the State Department's energy expert, James...
...past, a woman leaving work to bear a child forfeited her pay. The new policy treats maternity leaves the same as leaves for illnesses, allowing the woman to collect pay if her leave does not exceed the number of days allowed for sick leave...
...mine worker. Blankenship had applied for a union pension four years ago when he retired, but the Boyle regime denied it on a technicality. Miller handed Blankenship a check for $2,400, bringing the old miner up to date on his pension, and told Blankenship that he can now collect $150 a month...
DeLorean will not lack for things to keep him busy. He owns part of the San Diego Chargers football and New York Yankees baseball teams, and will remain on the G.M. payroll as a consultant and become a Cadillac dealer in Florida. That will enable him to collect accrued bonus payments, but also may bar him from working for a competing automaker-to the industry's loss. DeLorean has been heard to mutter that the auto business is something less than all important, and Detroit can use men with that heretical perspective...