Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today there are at least 800,000 restaurant employees in the nation who collect tips amounting to about a billion dollars a year, and an additional million or so people in the other service trades whose tip income is beyond estimate. Restaurant owners continue to pare employees' pay to the bone; even at Manhattan's high-priced "21," waiters' salaries are about $42 a week, while perhaps two or three times that amount comes from tips...
...pulled Fidel Castro's beard with more regularity than Miami Adman Erwin Harris, 39, who is still trying to collect tor an advertising campaign he ran for the Cuban Tourist Commission in 1959-60. Armed with liens on $429,000 worth of Cuban property in the U.S., Harris temporarily impounded two Cubana Airlines Bristol Britannias during 1960's hectic U.N. session forced Castro to fly home in a Soviet Ilyushin-18. Two months ago, Harris grabbed four Cuban C46 cargo planes, sold them for $36,000. Fortnight ago he seized another C46 and 13 boxcars of tobacco, released...
What is behind personal income's growing stability? Though each recession has been marked by a fairly sharp decline in income resulting from current production (3% in the 1960 recession), that fall is usually balanced by other factors. People still continue to collect about the same dividends and interest. Benefit payments, such as unemployment compensation and old-age pensions (laid-off oldsters frequently retire), always increase during a recession. They rose from $27.7 billion to $31.1 billion in the year up to February 1961. The level of personal income is also buoyed up during recessions by smaller tax collections...
Over the centuries, through destruction, loss, and wear and tear, thousands of such early Latin translations of the Bible disappeared. But countless ancient parchments, palimpsests* and books survived to challenge modern scholars with a complex task: to collect and compare early Bible texts with the standard Vulgate completed by St. Jerome in the first decade of the 5th century. The job is under way in the Vetus Latina (Ancient Latin) Institute of the Benedictine monastery of Beuron in southern Germany...
...member of the group stressed that "we're not going over to live like the people in the sense of trying to collect as many diseases of the country as possible." Defending the policy of treating the natives as equals, he maintained that the "white man's burden" attitude has brought only conspicuous failure...