Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main campus, union officials say it will be a while before they begin to collect the 1000-1500 signatures necessary to petition the NLRB for an election, adding that they must concentrate first on the Medical Area and then do the organizational ground work...
...mores of the newly liberated male; Comfort Me With Apples chose the form of parody for a series of hilarious lectures on modern literature. Here, sexual harassment is the ordure of the day. Voluptuous, innocent Daisy Dobbin, an investigative reporter, is sent undercover into New York offices to collect evidence for her feminist editor Bobsy Diesel. But it is the leathery Bobsy who does the harassing, vigorously attempting to seduce Daisy...
Dayan, in turn, has filed two suits in Chicago, seeking to protect his franchise and collect $500 million in damages. He says that he was given the French franchise on unusually favorable terms, and that the corporation now wants to get it back. Dayan admits that he had trouble matching the firm's American standards at first, but insists that both food and cleanliness in his restaurants are now comparable to those in the U.S. Thousands of Parisians who have given up long lunches for le snack at McDonald's seem to agree...
...take effect in about three months, unless modified after a 60-day period of public comment. The new rules include two important changes that were all but ignored last week in the initial public debate. One would make it far more difficult for workers who are discriminated against to collect back pay for jobs or promotions they did not get. The other provision would flatly forbid any employer with a Government contract to favor one race over another-hiring blacks, say, instead of equally qualified whites-even to atone for the effects of past discrimination. Government officials privately describe...
...equipment at work in the fields at night, an indication of the pressure caused by multiple harvesting. Says a Western analyst in Moscow: "The Soviets just don't have enough machinery to handle the job." Climatic vagaries have been compounded by perennial Soviet agricultural mismanagement. Incentives to collective farmers to increase production still appear to be lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along...