Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House passed, 399 to 14, the Administration's social security bill to 1) boost minimum monthly benefits from $33 to $40, and 2) permit men to retire and collect 80% of their usual benefits at 62 instead of 65, as women are already allowed to do. If the Senate, as expected, approves, the bill will boost social security benefit payments by $750 million in its first year of operation, raise social security taxes for employees and employers from the present 3% each on the first $4,800 of income to 3⅛% next year...
...midst of the Frente buildup, the underground sabotage operations of the M.R.P. inside Cuba came almost to a halt for lack of matériel. In November, Manolo Ray sneaked out of Cuba to the U.S., hoping to win some support. Anxious to collect all anti-Castro organizations under one umbrella, the CIA offered to help M.R.P. on condition that it join Varona's Frente. The M.R.P. refused. The M.R.P. asked that arms be dropped to guerrillas in Escambray. The CIA, say the exiles, finally agreed, but on condition that the weapons be stamped with the Frente...
...strict vegetarian regimen of his heretic ancestors has earned him the nickname "the Cathar Bishop." More active is Sociology Professor René Nelli of the University of Toulouse ("the vicar of Catharism"), who lectures on the subject all over France and has been commissioned by the French government to collect relics and documents for a Cathar museum-in the fortified city of Carcassonne...
...next move for the sponsors of the resolution will be to attempt to collect a thousand signatures from the student body, which would put the proposal before the College as a referendum. As of last night, the petitioners said they had acquired over 500 signatures in favor of a referendum...
Sitting as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the judges heard an appeal in the case of Great Northern Insurance Co., Inc., defendant, vs. Jonathan Hammond, plaintiff. The plaintiff, argued by the Magruder Club, contended that the transfer of a suit to collect damages in an automobile accident from a Wisconsin to a New York court, on request of the defendant, was improper, and should be reversed. The defendant maintained that New York law should apply, and that the case should be dismissed...