Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only have so much money." Peterkin said, explaining that the school committee could not offer higher benefits because of fiscal constraints placed on his office by Proposition 2 1/2. The 1980 tax-cutting measure limits the revenue Massachusetts cities may collect to 2 1/2 percent of assessed property values...
Despite the billions of stars in the galaxy, most are too faint to measure accurately, Large telescopes, such as the Multiple Mirror Telescope of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona near Tuscon, are employed to collect the necessary data...
Firstborn, like few recent films, offers a happy reminder that acting can make a film. With Ghostbusters. Murray, Ackroyd, and Ramis make a comedy even without a plot. Here, Collect, Weller, and Garr make a storing film into one of the best. Firstborn does not try to make a social statement by inserting treatises into its characters mouths, rattling off stats about divorce or runaway kids, in the style of some cheap television production. Instead Firstborn is a personal statement offering less pat answers than just a painful and powerful reminder to give pause...
...attending in a dozen different areas. Freshmen through graduate students can benefit from a visit to Memorial Hall. Employers will be there to answer questions about entry level and summer job opportunities at their firms. Come early and get a special Career Forum shopping bag in which to collect all your information...
...damage done to Canadian lakes by acid rain. Within hours after the launch, Ride commanded the shuttle's robot arm to release a $40 million heat-sensing satellite that will aid long-range weather forecasting. The crew unfolded the shuttle's 35-ft. radar antenna, which will collect topographical information over 10% of the earth's surface...