Word: collectively
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...Christian Democrats, who have ruled Italy most of the time since the war, never wanted to collect the dividend tax from the Vatican, but were under strong pressure from their Socialist coalition partners. Said Socialist Vice-Premier Pietro Nenni early last year: "No Socialist can take the responsibility for giving the Vatican tens of billions of lire." Caught in the crossfire, Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro asked the Vatican for a list of all its Italian stockholdings, assuring the Holy
Visiting Washington to collect a National Medal of Science for his "contributions to scientific knowledge," Chemist Harold Urey, 71, recalled that when he developed heavy water in 1931 he never dreamed that his discovery would win the Nobel Prize or, for that matter, become a vital ingredient in the making of the atomic bomb. "I thought it might have some practical use," he said, plaintively, "in something like neon signs...
...University Grants Commission recognizes that "the University should not be treated as though it were some kind of waiting room in which young men and women collect before entering upon a wage-earning career." But India's present educational goals stress promoting quantitative higher education. The possi...
...notified Justice Minister Favreau, and Favreau told Pearson, but as Pearson later admitted, he had "completely forgotten" about the warnings of trouble in his official family until two days before the Opposition Conservatives broke the story last November. When the storm hit Parliament, Pearson had no choice but to collect resignations and to appoint a commission of public inquiry. For the past six weeks, Canadians have been treated to the spectacle of the accused aides protesting their innocence and minor-league hoodlum types testifying about their "connections" in the Liberal government...
Optimistic Competitors. But Marine Transport figures that it can make money in the world's biggest floating crap game. Being an American firm, it will escape the anti-Niarchos sentiment, but can collect the low-tax, low-wage benefits that Niarchos already enjoys by keeping most of his ships under the Liberian flag. The company's executives are also impressed that Niarchos' Greek competitors are more optimistic about the future of shipping than he is, now have $500 million worth of ships on order. Niarchos himself is building one new supertanker in France (not included in this...