Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since 1971, the victims of such raids have been able to collect damages by suing law enforcement agents for illegal searches conducted in bad faith or without probable cause. But that right has been cold comfort: most agents do not have enough assets to make such suits worthwhile. Yet individuals have been prevented from collecting damages from the Federal Government under the traditional doctrine of sovereign immunity that puts the Government above the law in these matters, making it impervious to suits, however justified. In some cases the Government has agreed to pay damages of its own volition...
...personal philosophy giving meaning to life, or informing judgment. Instead only the rigors of description and evaluation of disciplinary views are discussed. The Faculty lives by the cult of the expert, as it refines the concept of role. But belief in the enterprise is lost in trying to collect symbols from others of the impressiveness of one's work...
...order to collect any actual back taxes, the IRS must move speedily. Before April 15 it will have to obtain waivers from, formally notify of tax deficiency, or bring suit against every one of the 17,000 former owners of Hartford who exchanged their stock for ITT shares. After that date, the three-year statute of limitations on most tax cases runs out. Preparing itself for that job, the IRS five months ago obtained a list of ITT stockholders who were former Hartford shareholders. But many of the former Hartford shareholders have sold or otherwise disposed of their ITT shares...
Gold claimed that when he contacted David Greenglass in New Mexico to collect information his password was "I come from Julius." This was the only direct connection he ever made between himself and the Rosenbergs. Interestingly enough, the FBI man who interrogated him has admitted that at first Gold could not remember the name used in the password but thought it was something like "Benny" of "John." It was only when asked by the investigator if it might have been Julius that Gold suddenly recalled the exact phrase...
...competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some medals and the satisfaction of winning the 27,000-mile endurance test sponsored by Whitbread & Company, Ltd., a British brewery...