Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damp like most of my clothes at school turn out. When there's a kitchen in the room, trash is also a high maintenance activity, not just a weekly afterthought. Our tiny dish-washer needs to be run a few times a day. Dust and other strange substances collect on every surface in the place. And if something breaks, you cannot call your mother or your superintendent...
...capsules as mementos for their children. But few took so seriously the idea of TIME as the first draft of history as did the late U.S. Army Colonel Robert Carter, who wanted his draft signed. This week Sotheby's will auction off 1,925 autographed TIME covers that Carter collected until he died in 1975. Through pleading letters, well-placed intermediaries and sheer doggedness, Carter tracked down artists, astronauts, athletes and war criminals--everyone from Jimmy Hoffa to Winston Churchill. "After his retirement, he started collecting very aggressively," says Elizabeth Muller of Sotheby's books and manuscripts department...
Winning is starting to become commonplace for the Harvard women's tennis team. Not only did the team collect its second straight Ivy League title, but for the first time since 1988, it earned itself a bid to the NCAA Regional Finals...
...when we are frozen out of the media. We rely on word-of-mouth, on the kind of door-to-door hard work we've always been good at." As an example of the organization's brute strength and savvy, Kuptsov offers this: "When it came time to collect the required 1 million signatures to become a candidate, Yeltsin gathered 1.4 million, but we went out and got 7 million. Why? Because we used the signature-collection process as a legitimate excuse to visit in people's homes beyond our Communist base. It was a chance to get people...
...taken months for the first trial to begin. Dusan Tadic, a Serb accused of abusing and murdering some of the 3,000 civilians at Omarska camp, finally goes before the court this week after delays caused, his lawyers say, by the Serb government repeatedly hindering efforts to collect evidence and interview witnesses...