Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish Civil War. They would, however, like to regain the local fueros (privileges) that were taken away from them by the Franco government for having fought on the wrong side of the civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
...roughly $1.60 per vote. Few of the expenses are on official record, since the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 stipulates that a Senator can spend only $25,000 on his campaign, a Representative $5,000. A candidate gets around this simply by setting up innumerable committees that collect and spend funds for his campaign without his "knowledge or consent." Thus Massachusetts' Senator Ted Kennedy, like many another Congress member, could and did file a report declaring that his 1962 campaign expenses were zero-though his supporters spent an estimated $2,000,000. Not that a campaign contribution necessarily means...
Under the present law, two drivers involved in an auto accident must press claims for damages against each other's insurance companies, rather than their own. To collect any money, each party must prove in court the other's negligence and his own lack of negligence...
Britain's Bulldog picks up the lady's scent when she arrives in London to collect her fee from the late magnate's chief competitors. She offers him a cigar; this time it is too slow on the draw, and Drummond tails her to a rendezvous with her boss, the inevitable master criminal. In his previous incarnations, Carl Petersen was presented as a fiend "whose inhuman calm acted on Drummond like a cold douche"; in this film, he is introduced as an Oilfinger (Nigel Green) who extorts a tribute of terror from the big petroleum cartels...
...Committee on the Bureau of Study Council. This kind of representation gives the dean platforms where he can be heard, and , equally important, makes him privy to information in a number of different subjects. It is a specialized brand of knowledge that few other people have time to collect...