Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve-passenger minivans that usually go right to each worker's doorstep. General Mills, Inc. has bought 13 of the vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect whatever profits remain after expenses are met and can use the vans during off hours. Generally they earn about $8.50 for 7½ hours' driving per week. The riders pay roughly 2.5? per mile, which is so much cheaper than operating an auto that some estimate annual savings...
...BankAmericard and Master Charge report that the number of delinquent accounts has risen to more than 5% of their membership totals, up almost a percentage point from a year ago. Thus member banks are reviewing applications more closely before issuing cards and making more use of bounty hunters to collect delinquent accounts The number of deadbeats that the National Credit Card Recovery Bureau is looking for has jumped 60% in the past six months. Says President Joseph C. Stewart Jr.: "Some accounts are $15,000 in arrears, and they are driving us wild trying to catch them...
Winning is not new to Cordero. Last year he won the Kentucky Derby on Cannonade and went on to collect more than $4.2 million in purses for the year. This year Cordero would like to win no less than $5 million. (Winning jockeys keep 10% of the winning purse...
...Birdie Gaston, 62, who lives in Harlem, was laid off as a packager for Alfred Dunhill, Inc. a week before Christmas. "I brood a lot, and I hurt inside," she says, but she has attempted to hide those feelings from her relatives. She feels "ashamed" that she has to collect unemployment compensation ($63 a week). Most of all, she misses the job. "When I am working, I feel 24 years old. When I am not working, I feel as if I'm 90. I don't even want to look in the mirror." She spends many days sitting...
...tell her mother about her new domestic arrangement. When Georgia was expected, Cher says, "I'd rush around, collect all of Sonny's clothes and dump them through the window into Melissa's place right across the way. One day Melissa was sitting at the table with some guests when a shower of Sonny's belongings descended on everyone. She just said, 'Oh, Cher's mother must...