Word: collective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he had repeatedly told the Internal Revenue Service that he would pay whatever they said he owed, "but they told me very frankly, 'No, we want you.' " That was a distortion, said an IRS official: "We just told him that we weren't there to collect money, that we were involved in a criminal investigation." No date has been set for the trial...
...here, price is no object. Disease, fever, obsession. Yes, it's all that, the fans agree. But don't you understand? If it's connected with The Beatles, it's important. Mike DeJoseph, who has travelled to Europe in search of Beatle records, is adamant: "I have to collect everything connected with them. I won't croak until I have everything. That's why I was sent to this earth...
...animals native to Kenya), contributes $25 from each sale. Russ Togs recently began to produce a "Save the Species" line of women's sportswear, which at contributions of 100 to 250 per garment should bring the fund at least half of the $100,000 that it expects to collect from the program this year. That will make up about one-sixth of the fund's 1975 program budget and will go far to help preserve the golden toad, the umbrella bird and the quetzal...
...centuries it was a habit of Popes to collect modern religious art. Up to the papacy of Urban VIII, who gave Bernini carte blanche to transform the face of Rome, the Vatican had a use for the best art of its time: magnificence as propaganda. The results, strung through exhausting miles of galleries and culminating in Raphael's stanze and Michelangelo's Sistine frescoes, fill the Vatican Museum. But this lofty tradition of patronage ebbed away, and by 1900 most official religious art was stranded in a sludge of gaudy plaster piety. With the exception of the gloomy...
...disadvantageous." All the industrial powers, including the U.S., object to the idea that they should make the investments, provide the technology and take the risks for the benefit of the poor countries. Their counterproposal: the international authority should set rules for deep-sea mining, license qualified miners, and collect perhaps 5% of the revenues for the needier nations...