Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale's aides would very much like to collect New Jersey as "insurance." Even so, they insist that Mondale could lose all the remaining contests and still reach the 1,967 mark. Agrees a congressional Democratic leader: "Mondale doesn't really need to win any more to put him over the top." Reason: he should do very well among the 219 "superdelegates" and 39 at-large delegates still to be picked from among party leaders and state officials...
...claims that United States aid is crucial to the success of his policies and his administration. It is vital that American markets be opened to Argentine goods if the country is to grow at all. Realizing that only if the debtor is allowed to do business will the creditor collect, Alfonsin is willing to implement an austerity program, but not a recessionary...
...help you?" A young woman, looking for the number of the Navy recruiter. "Sure, sure, no problem." The next one, a bona fide Army prospect, is guided to the office by way of a teen-age landmark, Taco Time, about 150 yds. away. When Yasenak gets a local collect call, a regular thing, he looks knowing and amused: the Washington State Penitentiary is in Walla Walla, and inmates must reverse all phone charges. "The guy said, Take me, I'm yours!' " He will...
There are some flaws in this record. What the CIA calls "human intelligence" has not yet recovered from the savage staff cuts carried out during the Carter Administration by Casey's predecessor, Stansfield Turner, who preferred to collect intelligence by electronic means. Casey did not have a single agent on Grenada until a few days before the American invasion last October, and could not provide an accurate estimate of the number of Cubans on the island. Casey takes special joy in having revived covert operations. He is said to have made several trips in unmarked planes to Honduras...
...embassy acquiesced with alacrity, and late last month a Lincoln Continental bearing West Virginia plates (the embassy had requested the license number beforehand, along with the route to the college) arrived in the capital to collect Oleg and Ksana Benyukh and Oleg and Irina Shibko. The driver was Calvin Carstensen, director of community education at the college, and when he met his passengers they handed him a map with a route sketched out that flummoxed him. To go their way would inflate the normal driving time-4½ hours-by half again or more...