Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the Supreme Court invalidated the Federal Election Commission, it also threw a lot of presidential candidates into a financial limbo-they were unable to collect after March 22 the matching funds promised by the austere new campaign laws. With their cash-boxes rapidly emptying and no federal money to bail them out, a number of candidates dropped out of active campaigning. With crucial primaries coming up, Ronald Reagan has formally applied for $557,000 from...
...Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide a one-sixteenth share. Aside from bequests to the Boy Scouts, an orphans' home and a school scholarship fund, Hughes' inner circle of aides stood to collect the rest of the estate, some $450 million...
...review panel's "conscientious effort" to collect all relevant evidence although it lacked the ability to compel testimony...
...former fashion model, an author (Amazon Odyssey), and a radical feminist who collected as much as $ 1,500 per speech on the lecture circuit. Ti-Graee Atkinson, 37, is something more. "I'm broke," she announced last week, after receiving her first New York City welfare check. The reason? Those well-paying speaking engagements have apparently gone the way of student sit-ins and antiwar marches. She had applied for menial jobs, too, she noted, "But people say I'm too old or too famous or too hot to handle." Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs...
...carpenters and sanitation men) who struck March 31 when the city froze their pay and reduced their benefits. The city wants to pay plumbers $20,150, but they are holding out for $21,500. Gardeners would get $17,330 instead of the $21,000 they want, and electricians would collect $16,620, not the $21,620 they hope for. City residents voted 2 to 1 last November to set the salaries of certain city employees, including craft workers, at rates comparable to pay for similar jobs in other California cities-not, as in the past, to wages paid in private...