Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shrinking demand is putting an unexpected, if bearable crimp in the oil revenues on which many of the more populous states depend for their ambitious and costly development programs. Iran, for instance, stands to collect $1.7 billion less in revenues this year than the $20.9 billion it received in 1974, unless present pumping levels are increased. Venezuela estimates that its oil income will be down $1.5 billion, from $9.3 billion last year...
...kinds of appliances will get rebates of from $2 to $5. Not to be outdone, the Proctor-Silex Corp. intends to give rebates of $3 to buyers of its self-cleaning steam irons. Beginning in the spring, buyers of Schick electric shavers, curling irons and hair dryers will also collect rebates of as yet undetermined size...
...national average. In Georgia, officials of the state department of labor estimated that unemployment there had jumped from 9% for the month of January to 11% or 12% by last week. Unemployment lines in Georgia are much the same as elsewhere in the U.S. People who wish to collect unemployment compensation have to sign up at state offices. The lines are long and quiet. They are also exercises in learning how to wait. Last week Atlanta Bureau Chief James Bell visited a job insurance office of the Georgia department of labor, stood in line and talked with Southerners...
...arrest and deportation adds some compelling new details to earlier accounts. After being charged with treason he was put in a cell with a pair of currency black-marketeers. Recognizing the author, one of the criminals expressed his dismay that Solzhenitsyn had not gone to Stockholm to collect his 70,000-ruble ($78,000) Nobel Prize in 1970. "You could have bought so many automobiles with that money!" Touched by the man's naive pity, Solzhenitsyn felt his first twinge of regret at having decided not to go to Sweden. Believing that he would probably die in jail...
...Santa Monica, Calif. After severing a brief 1918 marriage-her first and last -Kellems set up a cable-grip factory with a brother in 1927 and built it into a profitable firm. Fiercely combative, she began a 26-year feud with the IRS in 1948 by refusing to collect withholding taxes from her employees, later campaigned against tax discrimination favoring married people over singles, claiming last year that the Government owed her $48,000 illegally collected "just because I have no husband...