Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack Nicklaus keep up his recent winning pace to collect his fifth Masters title? Can Johnny Miller, who missed the cut at the Heritage Classic, regain the winning touch that earned him three titles earlier this season? How will Lee Elder handle the pressure of being the first black to compete for the winner's green jacket? These are among the tantalizing questions that will draw thousands of fans to Augusta, Ga., this week, and millions more to their television sets to view golf's most notable rite of spring-the Masters tournament...
Ervin said that in recent years the government has abused its powers to collect personal information on individuals and that the introduction of computer data banks allows a "thousandfold increase in the ability of the government to store and disseminate information" on individuals...
Ervin said that the Privacy Act of 1974, which limits the government's ability to collect and disseminate information without either the individual's approval or a court warrant as "an important victory for freedom in the endless war with tyranny to insure its own survival...
...Victor Gotbaum of the municipal employees union. Over the years, those organizations have wrenched some extraordinary settlements from the city. A garbage collector's base pay after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever did in wages. A high school teacher can insist on no more than 34 students to a classroom. In the past decade, though the city's population has declined, the number of its employees has risen...
...agents have been regaled with more than the usual seasonal number of IRS horror stories. ABC News recently aired on national TV an hour-long documentary accusing the IRS of being too willing to share confidential tax returns with other Government agencies and of occasionally using heavyhanded tactics to collect money. Newspapers have been filled with reports of Operation Leprechaun, a Nixon-era scandal involving alleged recruitment by IRS tax sleuths of a sex spy to collect information on prominent Floridians...