Word: collected
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...argued. He painted a bleak picture of the Salvadoran government, charging that its land-reform program had long been "abandoned" and that its repressive police tactics still terrorized the populace. "I have been to that country, and I know about the morticians who travel the streets each morning to collect the bodies of those summarily dispatched the night before by Salvadoran security forces." He said the U.S. ought to take up the offer made by some rebel leaders to negotiate a settlement, a prospect most analysts regard as highly dubious...
...addition to funding 10 new shelters, Johnson said that Dukakis's $7.2 million fiscal year 1984 budget allocation for the problem also proposes emergency counseling services and reforms in the state's welfare rules, which currently make it difficult for homeless recipients to collect benefits...
Others, such as fourth-time walker Kathryn Nunnelly, said that they did not collect pledges. "I don't get into sponsors, I walk for the morale," said Nunnelly, who wore a clown suit and distributed "clown kiss" stickers as she walked along Memorial Drive...
...Senate's rejection of withholding was a particularly bitter defeat for Dole, who had assailed the banking lobby for calling the plan a "new tax" when it was really designed to catch tax cheaters and collect some $5.2 billion this year from the 20 million people who fail to report fully their interest and dividend income. Dole had filibustered gamely against the repeal bill, which was sponsored by Republican Bob Kasten, a freshman Senator from Wisconsin. But Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were...
...service is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and will be led by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes Following the service the protesters plan to collect signatures for a statement that calls "for the ending of injustice and oppression everywhere," spokesman Abner A. Mason '85 said...