Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show a motive for the alleged fraud, Volz detailed the Governor's addiction to dice. Edwards was as unrepentant about his gambling habits as he had been about the money he made opening doors. "I don't collect coins," Edwards said. "I don't race horses. I like to gamble." Volz contended that Edwards lost $2 million in Nevada between 1981 and 1984; Edwards insisted that he had not squandered anything near that amount. "If I wasn't under oath," he said, "I'd tell...
...called male action figures like Mattel's Masters of the Universe. Since 1982, when the line was introduced, California-based Mattel has sold some 125 million creatures, or an average of eleven of them to each boy in the U.S. between the ages of five and ten. Children collect the 6-in. plastic figures ($5 to $7), whose personalities reflect a blend of medieval and outer-space themes, in order to enact imaginary battles between good and evil. The virtuous leader is He-Man, who fights a never-ending crusade against wicked Skeletor. So far, Mattel has produced 34 other...
...many other areas of "greater responsibility" must Lown and his crowd collect before they shed their mask and own up to their blatantly political orientation? The clear intent of IPPNW--to discredit and change Western nuclear weapons policy--deserves a thorough exposition and labelling, if not by IPPNW itself, then by concerned observers throughout the West. Responsible discussion of what the West should do to prevent nuclear holocaust is not served by dissembling pseudo-experts like Dr. Bernard Lown...
Three-year starter Grant Blair may be the nation's best goalie--or he may not. But there is no finer backstop in the East. With his kick saves and sprawling stops, Blair is as acrobatic in the net as any gymnast doing the floor excercises. Expect him to collect enough gold medal-winning performances this campaign to give Fusco chase for ECAC Player of the Year honors...
...council's view] that if they dropped [the reports] at doors, they would be picked up and swept away." Yet anyone who knows anything about doordrops also knows that they are an effective and cost-effective means of distribution on campus. Besides, who on earth would want to collect a pile of wordy reports from campus doorsteps in the early morning...