Word: collectively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whitla said that he intended to employ more objectivity and data than previous studies have. All of the previous reports have been the observations of a single person, he said. Whitla plans to collect data through interviews and extensive questionnaires to be sent to about 100 residents in each House...
Chile already has protested, claiming that the French courts lack jurisdiction. Kennecott argues that its property was in effect confiscated and that it has a right to recover its losses, which it figures at about $180 million. The company obviously hopes either to collect enough from foreign buyers of Chilean copper to make up that sum, or to force Chile into negotiating compensation for Kennecott's 49% interest in El Teniente, the world's largest underground copper mine. Win or lose, Kennecott has gained a tactical edge: Chile will have to justify its expropriation before relatively impartial French...
...commercial vessels, including the nation's first 250,000-ton supertankers-to be constructed by Bethlehem Steel and Seatrain Shipbuilding-and other classes of ships that previously were ineligible for subsidies. Builders are paid the difference between construction costs in the U.S. and abroad, which means that companies collect between a quarter and a half of the cost of new ships from the Government. Further, U.S. shipowners are paid "operating subsidies" to reimburse them partially for their crews' American-sized wages. Counting special tax deferrals and various ship-American laws that raise prices to the consumer, the Brookings...
...club. At one extreme, members of Los Angeles' Hillcrest Country Club (whose ranks include Jack Benny, George Burns and Groucho Marx) learned several years ago that oil had been discovered on their land; the club has no problems with membership turnover. Members, who have shares in the club, collect tax-sheltered dividends on their original initiation fees, and "B.O." (for "before oil") memberships have become so valuable that they are willed from father...
...opening of the office follows several months of research by Kyle in cooperation with President Bok. Kyle, who proposed the center to Bok this summer, recently visited several universities to collect information on teacher training...