Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge, however, recently finished a complete reassessment of all real estate in the city which added about 60 percent to the value of each property. This reevaluation enabled Cambridge to collect about the same amount of revenue from property taxes, while complying with the lower tax rates mandated by Prop...
...remote-controlled mechanical arm for another first: the deployment of a 30-ft.-long cylindrical package, called the long-duration exposure facility (LDEF), which contains 57 separate scientific experiments contributed by nearly 200 scientists in nine countries. LDEF will be left in orbit 10½ months to collect cosmic materials, test solar cells and measure the effects of space on a variety of materials, including 12 million tomato seeds, which will be distributed next year to biology students. Other passengers on the flight: 3,300 honeybees, which are being sent aloft because one collegian wants to see if the insects...
Because radioactive particles and soot from burning cities would collect in the atmosphere, after a nuclear strike, Sagan concluded that Earth's terrestrial surface temperature would also decrease...
...another scene, Gortchakov and Eugenia visit a man who had been mad ever since losing his wife. The madman, who lives in a dilapidated house full of pails and bottles to collect the rain falling through the roof--there is not a single sunny scene in the film--urges Gortchakov to perform a ritual, carrying a lit candle across one of the fountains outside his house--a wish that is later carried out. We know neither the reason for Gortchakov's visit nor the significance of the ritual...
Revenue agents seized Elsie's shortly after 11:00 a.m. to collect more than $29,000 in state meal taxes unpaid since 1982, Department Spokesman Harry M. Duming said...