Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STANDING in the rain to collect their strike pay-$30 a week for a single man, $40 for a family-the strikers in their baggy cotton pants and frayed shirts evoked an image of the 1930s. The line stretched around the grimy headquarters of United Auto Workers Local 235 in Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed...
There's more than one way to collect an IOU. Freelancer Fred Shapiro, for instance, was hired as a speechwriter for Arthur Goldberg, New York's Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Shapiro's credentials for the job were that he had never written a speech before, and that he prided himself on his political virginity-he seldom read past the headlines of political stories. Two weeks and two unsuccessful speeches later he quit, billing the former Supreme Court Justice for $587.50. That was in April, but it wasn't until two days after the September issue of Esquire...
...energies. Attacking portraiture with his customary canny vigor, Porter tried to speed up the normally tedious process and devised a simply constructed portable camera obscura. By projecting the subject's facial outline onto paper, Porter could, in 15 minutes, trace a likeness, fill in the features, and collect...
...Sargent in consultation with insurance-industry leaders, would have provided the first clear-cut test in any state of the "no-fault" principle of auto insurance. At present, a person injured in an auto crash must prove that the accident was someone else's fault before he can collect any insurance award. Many accident victims-35% in Massachusetts-are unable to prove fault and never get a penny; others overload the courts and the insurers' investigative machinery with claims that take up to four years to settle...
Sargent proposed instead that an auto driver, his passengers and any pedestrians struck by the car be entitled to collect up to $2,000 for accident injuries from the driver's insurance company without attempting to prove who was at fault. The bill also ordered a 15% cut in premiums on bodily injury insurance. The companies figured that they could afford the lower rates because of prospective slashes in their investigative, administrative and legal expenses. Massachusetts drivers could use the reduction; they pay the highest average premiums in the country. The minimum liability insurance required by law in Massachusetts...