Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cancer) in white males aged 25-45. Death certificates record 20,000 cases (three-fourths of them men) annually. But many authorities believe the actual number is two or three times as great, because many suicides are never detected or are deliberately misrepresented as accidental deaths in order to collect insurance or to spare relatives...
...later days as an independent producer, Zanuck has had no direct hand in Fox's fiscal affairs, being content to collect a $150,000-a-year fee as a "consultant." But he reminded all and sundry that he remains the studio's largest individual stockholder, with some 110,000 out of Fox's 2,500,000 outstanding shares. Skouras held some 98,000 more; together, and with sympathy from shareholders in the movie industry, Zanuck reasoned that they were ready for a proxy fight. A Zanuck-Skouras entente was fashioned by Attorney Louis (My Life in Court...
...target area was a fertile quilt of rice fields and palm jungle near the market village of Tan Phu, only ten miles from Saigon. Communist Viet Cong guerrillas not only control the countryside, but can enter the town itself with impunity. They collect both rice and money taxes from the peasants and, in their hidden weapons caches, keep musical instruments and songbooks for use in the evening indoctrination sessions held for the local citizenry...
...days, Timothy Wentworth Beaumont is the very model of a modern Mayfair gentleman. He gathers writers and politicians the way other men collect stamps, entertaining 30 or 40 at dinner each week in his opulent London town house. He has used his fortune lavishly to bankroll England's recent Liberal revival, and is chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Liberal Association. He owns a small but influential string of magazines. He is an avid follower of the track, and his wife races a filly named High...
Explains a government economist: "Our nuclear program is like life insurance. You pay heavy premiums over a number of years, but eventually you collect good dividends...