Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Normally, sympathy-evoking cases like these are prized by personal-injury lawyers, who usually win a healthy majority of their suits--and collect a third of any winnings. But even the most combative attorneys are inclined to shake their heads when the defendant is Walt Disney Productions. Against the huge entertainment complex, personal-injury specialists are hardly ever victorious. The company's astonishing success is the result of a combination of safety-minded care and case-hardened lawyering...
...several victories for the U.S. at the five-day meeting. The board also rejected a Soviet bid to cut costs by firing UNESCO's 143 American employees. And it sidestepped an effort by M'Bow to sue the U.S. in the World Court in an attempt to collect an American contribution of $43 million...
...warehouse. The source of the report is a Vietnamese defector who worked as an undertaker on U.S. war dead in Hanoi. The Vietnamese have denounced these allegations as "slanderous." Conjectures about Viet Nam's maneuvering, however, were underscored last July when a U.S. military delegation traveled to Hanoi to collect the remains of the M.I.A.s. At the time, a Vietnamese official bluntly and unexpectedly informed the Americans that the transfer of the remains had been delayed since the previous April because of Hanoi's suspicions of U.S. complicity in Chinese attacks that month along Viet Nam's northern border...
...foods well above those prevailing in the rest of the world. The supports are a complex mixture of loans and cash payments from the Government to farmers, who sometimes have to restrict planting to qualify for them. They guarantee the farmer a minimum income per bushel, which he can collect from Uncle Sam if private buyers will not pay that much; they keep market prices near the support level. In the case of wheat, which gets more subsidy ($3.8 billion this year) than any other American crop, the basic U.S. support level is $3.30 per bu. and the market price...
Until the advent of instant lotteries, state-sponsored games were conducted by drawing. While such contests still have 70% of the market, scratch-ticket lotteries are growing in popularity because of the instant gratification--or dejection. Today, for a bet of $1, a lucky player can collect...