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Word: collecters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always stopped short of going along with more extreme demands for annexation. Instead he now embraces the Camp David formula he rejected in 1978, which would grant the Palestinians a semblance of autonomy. That concession sounds to most Arabs like little more than the right to collect their own garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Move to The Right | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...degree, most of Europe embraces the notion that perestroika represents a golden opportunity to increase trade. But some Europeans hope to collect a bonus by inducing Western-style change in the Soviet political system. "If Gorbachev's reforms are to succeed," says a British diplomat, "they can only do so by making the Soviet Union a very different place." West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher, among the first to welcome Gorbachev's promised reforms, argues that the West would be negligent if it ignored the "historic opportunity" offered by the Soviet leader to turn his country into a more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West A Toast - or Roast - for Reform? | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...council resolution proposes to first try out a recycling program in one house, where dorm crew members would collect newspapers once a week from bins in each entryway. Jeffrey A. Roy '90, co-chair of the Phillips Brooks House Environmental Action Committee (EAC), said dorm crew workers in Lowell House were willing to try the experiment...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Recycling Plan in Jeopardy | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

...passed by Congress in 1866 to ensure the rights of emancipated slaves by granting them the same freedom to "make and enforce contracts" that white citizens had. That law, as interpreted by the court, allowed racial minorities to bring discrimination suits against private parties and, most important, to collect monetary damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Is The Court Turning Right? | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...Philippine government has filed 39 civil suits against Marcos, seeking to collect $96.7 billion in damages. But no criminal charges have been filed there because officials fear the deposed leader would insist on his constitutional right to return to the country to face his accusers in court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Court Indicts Marcoses for Fraud | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

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