Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...registrar's office will establish a courier system to collect the files material from departments and Houses, show the material to the students, and then return it to its original source...
Under the scheme, Labor Minister Michel Durafour indicates, the government will grant $220 million to set up an emergency fund. The fund will be supported by contributions financed 80% by employers and 20% by workers through higher payroll deductions. Any worker discharged because of economic force majeure can collect from the fund 90% of gross wages for a full twelve months, roughly equivalent to the take-home pay he or she would have received on the job. Government inspectors supposedly will make sure that the layoffs truly result from recession, and not from bad management by the company or poor...
...proverbial Florence Nightingale across the river, is still a novelty--therefore to be avoided. Prescriptions are seldom followed and infant mortality is high. Several times a week, the familiar orange helicopter from the hospital at Blanc Sablon, the border town between Quebec and Labrador, lands on the riverbank to collect and deposit patients on the orders of the nurse. It is not unusual for parents to try to convince her that healthy babies are in fact sick, thereby placing the child in the hands of the hospital and reducing the burden of extra dependents until the child is old enough...
...presidential directive aimed at channeling more money into the cash-parched mortgage market. The plan would probably enable lenders to grant mortgages to home buyers at below-market rates, then sell the loan to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. and collect a fee for their services. In a similar plan last spring, the FHLMC got $3 billion to buy up mortgages carrying an interest rate...
...though some doubt that the money ends up in the coffers of such worthy recipients as hospitals or orphanages. Early this year, James Skane, the American managing director of Esso Standard in Kenya, was declared a "prohibited immigrant" and summarily expelled from the country after he aggressively tried to collect some $70,000 in unpaid fuel bills. Unfortunately for Skane, it turned out that the money was owed by a series of farms reportedly owned under different names by Kenya's lionized President Jomo Kenyatta...