Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, the government will be operating on a medium of the high years, so they will be able to maintain their services," she said. She said voting "No" to Question Three on the referendum would mean the government "could collect $1 billion extra and spend it any way they want...
...York had a game's lead over Houston after five, but the Mets were blessed to be alive. The best team in baseball, self-appointed, batted .189 and struck out 57 times. Split-Fingered Fast-Baller Mike Scott dismayed the Mets twice; all they could do with Scott was collect allegedly scuffed baseballs and cry to the press. Dykstra's ninth-inning homer saved a third loss, and Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with...
...Peking is phasing in the contracts slowly. The system will apply only to newly hired workers, thus enabling the nearly 70 million employees of state firms to keep their guaranteed positions. Soldiers returning to civilian life can also count on permanent jobs. Dismissed workers, meanwhile, will be able to collect unemployment insurance of up to 75% of their salaries for as long as two years; they can also appeal firings...
...America is running at its highest level in a generation. How high will be tested in Oregon in November, when voters will decide on Ballot Measure 5: Should marijuana be legalized for personal use? The Oregon Marijuana Initiative has spent about $50,000 promoting the proposition and helping collect the 87,000 signatures necessary to place it on the ballot. John Sajo, 30, the group's director, admits, "We're fighting the general drug hysteria," but hopes Oregon's voters will approve the measure, which would allow consumption of pot in homes and its cultivation by individual growers...
...case to Dallas, Judge Sanders said that since the majority of the Hunt creditors are based in Texas, their claims should be heard in that state. Jerry Jones, a lawyer for the banks, had earlier argued that "we do not want to be charging around the United States to collect our debts." Some observers speculate that the Hunts may have wanted their case to be heard in a New Orleans court because they believed they would find a more sympathetic judge there. The Hunts, however, . deny that charge. Their lawyers maintain that Placid filed for bankruptcy in Louisiana because most...