Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testing is due to expire next month, few observers expect the Soviets to resume nuclear tests immediately, which leaves the U.S. scientists with little to monitor. Moreover, the U.S. already has in place a worldwide network of stations that accurately monitor Soviet tests. Even so, the American observers should collect invaluable data on the seismological characteristics of the Soviet Union and on the Soviets' ability to read tremors from U.S. nuclear tests. The project's primary goal, said Archambeau, is to "demonstrate that on-site inspection is feasible and should be no obstacle to a test moratorium." Added M.I.T...
...notes. But that maturity, that ability to read other human beings, that maturity to make a decision based on what is needed as opposed to what you want--there's no degree for that. It's a happy time for you. It's a time to get it together, collect your family, collect the love and then collect yourselves, because now comes the maturity of self, the decisions to be made. Young ladies and gentlemen, this is not your world yet. You have to make...
...role of Harvard is not to throw money at the problem," O'Neill asserts. "While the University can collect data on the subject and influence policy-makers at the federal level, there is a greater role for individual volunteers who want to do something personally...
Telephone users attempting to place person-to-person, collect, third-number-billing or credit card long-distance calls yesterday were frequently greeted with a telephone recording advising that AT&T was experiencing a "work stoppage" and asking them to wait for the next available operator...
After that promising start, Levine used his Bahamas connection again and again. He called Meier collect from public pay phones during his lunch hour, using the alias "Mr. Diamond." The owners of his stocks were listed as International Gold Inc. and Diamond Holdings S.A., which were dummy corporations that Levine had set up in Panama. When he needed to confer with Meier in person, he flew to the Bahamas under a fictitious name, using plane tickets that he purchased with cash. So as not to arouse the suspicion of his wife, he never mentioned his out-of-town trips...