Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some people collect rare stamps or coins. Sonny Werblin, president of the American Football League's New York Jets, collects quarterbacks. He had three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
...collect Samples while it's wet with sludge and slime, but State Police Sgt. Jim Sartori yesterday...
...bills should have been sent out in June But Proposition 212, the tax-cutting measure passed in 1980, forced Cambridge and other Massachusetts cities to slice 15 percent off their tax levy until they reached a 212 percent limit. In order to collect enough tax revenue, the city had to revaluate all its real estate and did not receive state certification of its figures until last week...
Along the northern coast of Japan, investigators continued to collect the debris from Flight 007. A five-ship U.S. task force searched international waters for the "black boxes" from the airliner that contain vital flight information. Near by, a Soviet fleet was doing the same thing. At times, ships from the two fleets came within 500 yds. of each other, engaging in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation...
...reportedly prone, during minor community disputes, to flash the gun he usually wore. He had quit his job as an investigator for the state's Division of Human Rights in 1979 after developing cardiac arrhythmia, a minor heart condition but serious enough for him to collect disability payments. On $18,000 a year, the family had been living a simple and secluded life in their middle-class neighborhood...