Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lewis and his wife Marilyn, both 50, seem to spend half their time in automobiles, driving the triangle from their farm outside Philadelphia to Washington and Harrisburg, where Marilyn is a second-term delegate in the state legislature. "I love all the driving," she says, "because it lets me collect my thoughts, and when I'm driving with Drew, it's a private time when the telephone doesn't ring." Drew grouses about the inconveniences-the right clothes are always in the wrong city, and leisure activities are pared to the bone. Says he: "There...
...senators and 80 assemblymen gets an addition al $50 a day tax free while the legislature's work is under way: an average of $12,000 apiece this year. Each lawmaker receives a monthly car allowance of $265 plus a gasoline credit card to use without limit. Many collect an extra $6 for custom car washes. There are other travel perquisites: many legislators traveled to Washington at state expense to lobby Congress for the tax exemption on their $50 per diem...
...Cambridge-based group recently passed the halfway mark in a drive to collect 25,000 signatures of local voters on a national petition calling for a bilateral halt on "all further testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons...
Such a plan echoes an industry policy in the late 1950s that required a $3 dollar fee from travelers who failed to keep their reservations. The airlines abandoned the program when they found that it cost $5 to collect the fine and also caused ill will among flyers. An effort to counter no-shows through overbooking flights encountered turbulence. Enraged passengers and consumer advocates forced federal regulators to pass a rule that fined carriers for overbooking flights. Any agreement the airlines reach at their scheduled meeting probably could not take effect in time for the Christmas and New Year...
...alternative to this brand of historiography, Tuchman offers narration--and what she calls "history by the ounce." A historian should focus on a particular event and collect all of the evidence relating to it. "We can never be certain that we have recaptured it as it really was. But the least we can do is stay within the evidence." Often in this process of arranging the facts in narrative form, a theory or historical generalization will emerge of its own accord. It may be a modest one, she admits, "but my size...