Word: collection
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Urging seniors to contribute to Harvard and make a statement for divestiture, recruiters for the fund-two in each House-managed to collect over $7000 from 360 of the 1500 seniors in just a few weeks. The regular Class Gift, meanwhile, netted $23,000 from 900 students. Although the total given to the two funds combined matched last year's contributions to the regular Class Gift, the percentage of donors fell by 20 percent...
Urging seniors to contribute to Harvard and make a statement for divestiture, recruiters for the fund--two in each House--managed to collect over $7000 from 360 of the 1500 seniors in just a few weeks. The regular Class Gift, meanwhile, netted $23,000 from 900 students. Although the total given to the two funds combined matched last year's contributions to the regular Class Gift, the percentage of donors fell by 20 percent...
...their husbands. The colloquial phrase "rule of thumb" is supposedly derived from the ancient right of a husband to discipline his wife with a rod "no thicker than his thumb." In the U.S. the statistics reflect no unprecedented epidemic of domestic violence, but only a quite recent effort to collect figures?often inexact, but startling even when allowances are made for error?on what has always existed: ¶Nearly 6 million wives will be abused* by their husbands in any one year. ¶ Some 2,000 to 4,000 women are beaten to death annually. ¶ The nation's police...
...those states by Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden indicated that Jackson had the support of 42% of black Democrats and independents, and less than 1% support among whites. Because the party's rules generally require a candidate to win 20% of the vote in a district in order to collect any delegates, analysts say that unless Jackson picks up significant white support he will probably win no more than 250 out of the 3,931 total. That would afford him very little bargaining power at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco. Says Darden: "For Jackson to stay...
...smooth. Direct-dial calls generally zipped through the computerized networks with no trouble. But people who needed information or help in making long-distance calls encountered bothersome delays. Mary Lynn Graham, an Ohio State University journalism student, had to try four times over 30 minutes before successfully making a collect call to her parents in Dayton. Ohio Bell reported that on the first day of the strike its supervisors could handle only 153,000 operator-assisted long-distance calls, instead of the normal 289,000. Phone installations were postponed, and repair work was held up. Southern New England Telephone admitted...