Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such tests might conceivably escape detection, but the chances of doing so are minute. Besides, particularly in outer space, the costs would be enormous, and it would be extremely difficult to collect reliable data. Moreover, most of the U.S. program for nuclear weapons development is now conducted below ground and will remain unaffected by the test ban. It is therefore highly unlikely that even prolonged secret preparations for a new round of atmospheric testing would tip the power balance...
...paid a personal income tax. Police and Public Health officers nearly lost their minds trying to trace the true ownership of his 400 to 500 buildings. They would discover that in a single Rachman house different owners were listed for different floors; one company would have a lease to collect rents, another to make repairs, and a third would simply be holding the house "in trust" for one of Rachman's myriad firms...
...down his entire savings of $5,000 in 1919 to buy his first hotel, the bustling Mobley in oil-rich Cisco, Texas. He managed to put together a small chain in Texas before the Depression wiped him out, bounced back with shrewd and often audacious horse trading to collect a lineup of prestigious hotels. His first major move was to acquire the high-priced Town House in Los Angeles, but he really broke into the big time in 1945 when he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens (which had been occupied by the Army during...
...attack in the Commons, demanding an investigation of the Profumo case by a parliamentary select committee with sweeping powers. The more limited judicial inquiry proposed by Macmillan, cried Wilson, was merely "a cover-up," because, without authority to compel proof or the attendance of witnesses, it would have to collect evidence "from some of the most unmitigated liars in this country...
...slums, Labor promises to commit more public funds to new housing and redevelopment, restore rent controls, and regulate new construction. Labor also aims to break the age-old power of wealthy landowners, who seldom sell property outright but give developers long-term leases on which the landlords continue to collect "ground rent." New legislation would give all leaseholders the right to buy actual "freehold" ownership of their land...