Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason U.S. court dockets are chocked with auto-accident claims is traceable directly to the hoary rule of "fault"-the idea that a victim can collect only if he was not negligent and the defendant was. Because these issues are often hotly disputed, a deserving victim may have to haggle for years before getting his just award-and then he may have to share about one-third of it with his lawyer. The costly, complex process has been steadily boosting the price of auto insurance, but the amount paid out in accident awards remains far less than...
...only is Bunny Mellon an enthusiastic Francophile, but she is also an ardent gardener. Last week Interior Secretary Udall gave her a special award for her work as the designer of the Kennedy Rose Garden at the White House. The two enthusiasms soon combined, led the Mellons to collect some of the impressionists' and postimpressionists' most handsome tributes to their own gardens, four of which are reproduced in the accompanying color pages...
Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water. Mosquitoes of some breeds collect on people playing flutes. Lions fly into panic, dogs sink into bliss-though only when the flute is played in the key of C minor. In China, the musk deer is hunted with a Judas flute, which the deer meekly follows to its doom...
...TOGO In teams of three and working out of towns with hospitals, Volunteers will visit one village a day on a recurring basis to combine preventive and curative medicine, collect data, make health inspections and teach health practices to adults and children. One nurse will teach public health at the Lome Nursing School...
...banking faces more opportunities than problems. Power needs will triple in 25 years. Railroads and their terminals need reorganizing to handle both high- and low-speed trains. There will be satellites, undersea dwellings, passenger travel through space. All will require investment capital in the giant bundles that investment bankers collect. While nothing is so constant as change, the Lehmans feel certain of one thing: nobody is likely to devise a substitute for money...