Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman married a man who had been killed when his motorcycle collided with a horse. A French higher court of appeals ruled last month that the woman can now collect damages from the farmer who owns the horse...
Profitable Incentive. Corporations will not collect the full benefit of the $2.4 billion drop in corporate taxes for a few years,* but the cut is only one of the factors encouraging them to spend. Profits after taxes have risen from $21.8 billion in 1961 to $27.2 billion in 1963. There has been an even sharper increase in the amount of cash in corporate coffers, since companies are writing off more income in the form of depreciation expenses under the liberalized depreciation rules passed in 1962. At the same time, rising orders for basic materials, industrial machines and other durable goods...
...each meeting they attend, directors collect anywhere from $20 (American & Foreign Power) to $300 (Union Carbide). Some companies pay annual retainers, ranging up to General Mills's $10,000. But the responsibilities of sitting on a board usually exceed the rewards. "You couldn't hire many of these men for hundreds of dollars an hour," says American Motors Chairman Richard E. Cross. "They do it because they like business-the power and the thrust and the action...
...explore specific but basic problems, and should include many students not on the Council. In this way the Council could make use of specialized interest and knowledge in the Community and thereby become both more effective and representative. Committee reports, once approved, should be given wide circulation. Currently they collect dust in the Council office...
...Sentinel's pictures, spread all over Page One one morning last week, were all the evidence Milwaukee police needed to arrest John Allen Thomas, 44, a Brink's guard assigned to collect nickels from parking meters under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels...