Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage to the brain...
...employees. Contractors, except a few working for the Atomic Energy Commission or doing Defense Department research, are on their own; if their products are at fault in a catastrophe, they can be liable for enough to outstrip any conceivable insurance and bankrupt them many times over. But to collect even a few cents on the dollar, the victim would probably face the staggering job of pinning down in court exactly which of perhaps dozens of contractors and subcontractors were actually to blame...
...dreary legal aftermath of that holocaust is recalled in a new study of Government liability by Columbia University's Legislative Drafting Research Fund, which points out that Texas City victims waited nine years for their first penny of Government compensation. After the Supreme Court ruled they could not collect under the Tort Claims Act, a special act of Congress allowed them just $16,698,000 against damages estimated up to $300 million...
...above, through what appears to be a hole in the ceiling. And in one memorable variation, he has her running the vacuum toute nue. Based on a bestselling French novel, Warrior's Rest, the movie casts Bardot as a girl who inherits a fortune, goes to Dijon to collect it, instead picks up a suicidal rake named Renaud (Robert Hossein). After saving his life, she feels responsible for him, so she moves him into her bed, where most of the action takes place. Soon she gives up friends, family and fiance. "This situation is permanent?" sniffs her mother. "Well...
...wagon, began housecleaning Thailand from top to bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that the annual custom of burning shops to collect insurance for the Chinese New Year was now taboo...