Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first step in the time-consuming process is to collect pledges from at least 30 per cent of the teaching fellows authorizing the Union to act for them. Approximately 400 pledges would be needed from Harvard teaching fellows...
...Union must collect authorization in order to file a petition for recognition. Since Harvard has no more than 1200 teaching fellows, approximately 400 pledges would be needed...
...will shortly absorb an entire union, the 47,000-member Brewery Workers. Yet for all their recruiting success, often the result of extravagant promises to workers, the Teamsters in non-trucking fields have the reputation of a do-nothing union that is content to accept area pay patterns and collect dues...
...stolen TV sets. Now he's in trouble. He's flown out to Las Vegas and he's signed $18,000 worth of markers. He doesn't have the money. Digger's immediate problem is the Greek. It is the Greek who must collect the $18,000 plus $400 a week vigorish. He's tough, of course, but the idea of twisting the Digger's arm gives him cold sweats...
...only by comparison. The ex-servicemen of World War II got tuition paid in full at even the best private colleges plus a "subsistence allowance" of $50 a month for a veteran without dependents, which was adequate in the late 1940s. Veterans on today's G.I. Bill collect only $220 a month, which is enough to cover tuition at most state universities, but leaves little or nothing for living expenses...