Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party hacks, he picked competent administrators-most of them nonpolitical, all antiCommunist. None was more surprising than Robles' young chief tax collector, Rodrigo Núñez, 28, a University of Chicago Ph.D. in economics who started work two months ago with a novel approach: he intends to collect the taxes that Panamanians have never paid. Núñez has started auditing the books of the country's 30 biggest companies, has instituted 138 lawsuits in Panama City alone. "Most un-Panamanian, un-Latin and unbelievable," gasped one critic...
...most undergraduates, who have little cause to keep books for more than a month, the rule is no great inconvenience. The full weight of the regulation falls on thesis-writing seniors. It requires a day to collect twenty or thirty books from the various corners of Widener, check them out, and carry them back to one's House. It requires another day and a half to return them, wait for them to be re-shelved, hunt them down and check them out again. And although it is understandable that in general the Library should wish to have books return...
...island from the 7th to the 11th centuries; in the 13th, Prankish rulers persecuted monks and priests who refused to pledge allegiance to the Pope. The Ottoman Turks, conquering the island in 1571, paradoxically heightened the church's influence by appointing Orthodox bishops as local ethnarchs to collect taxes and run schools, thus preserving the language, culture, hopes and religion of Greece. By the time Britain took control over Cyprus in 1878, the bishops had lost their civil powers. But the tradition of clerical leadership still prevailed when the Cypriots sought a President after gaining a guarantee of independence...
...baseball: a set of pinstriped Yankee flannels. Called up in the final weeks of the 1948 pennant race, he arrived like a rookie's dream: three singles in his first three trips to the plate. The sad awakening came later. In all of September, Hank managed to collect just six more hits. At season's end his average...
Almost any group of entrepreneurs with sound character and solid financing can get a bank charter. All they have to do is find a suitable location, convince state or federal examiners that the area could support a new bank, then raise the money for it. Businessmen often collect enough by passing the hat among themselves, and sometimes they can get started on a small stake by putting up their shares in the bank as collateral for low-interest loans from bigger banks. Less affluent organizers sell stock to the public. Often investors are let in only after they pledge...