Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does John Howe's questionable conduct appear to be limited to his real estate duties. In April 1977, Metropolitan District Commissioner John Snedeker discovered that John Howe was without approval in leaving his full-time patronage job as a "water sampler" early in order to collect an additional $5500 annually as a tax assessor. Howe knocked off early from his 8 a.m.-to-4 p.m., $270-a-week job twice a month for a year, Snedeker reported. Snedeker also found that Howe was using an MDC truck for his separate assessing duties...
...Spacelab is a special experimental station designed to allow scientists to collect data in the weightless, pressureless atmosphere of outer space using their own equipment...
...ruled a federal court in 1975.It sentenced him to five years in prison for tax evasion. With time off for good behavior, McNulty, 67, has served his sentence. But the IRS has filed a suit to collect its bill-now $70,000 because of additional penalties-and Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli has ordered McNulty to stay in jail until he complies. Says McNulty: "I've held out for almost four years, and I'll hold out until I see justice and freedom served." Not to mention his bank account...
...Panamanian cultural attaché ran a red light in Washington and plowed into another car, permanently paralyzing one of its passengers, Dr. Halla Brown, 66. After 19 months of hospitalization and round-the-clock nursing care at home, her medical bills have exceeded $300,000, but she could never collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then bring suit...
...walk describes a long circle and Cheever's house comes into view again. It seems a natural outcropping of the hill on which it was built 179 years ago. In his stories, Cheever has satirized the obsession to collect and preserve old things. "It represents inertia, lack of enthusiasm, everything I detest in life." Then the curator of his own stories laughs outright: "However, if you want to see my grandmother...