Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well the newly independent parts fare is critical to the question of how much phone bills will rise after the split. If the regionals make money, attract investors, improve efficiency and keep costs down, phone bills stand a better chance of staying reasonable. If they do not, pressure to collect money from phone users for lost revenues will increase...
...definition. What we've done is to prove essentially that yellow rain is not an agent of war, that it is bee feces. The army's view, the last time they enunciated a view, was that the yellow rain does contain pollen. They say it's because the Communists collect pollen that has been gathered by insects previously, and face it with toxin. What we think we have done is to rule out that hypothesis and to produce convincing evidence that what this stuff is, is the dropping of insects. The State Department has made a colossal error...
...toward the nearby True Blue campus. At 8:30 a.m., students heard and saw soldiers near the men's dorm. One Ranger ran across the runway and shouted, "We're Americans. You are all right." The soldiers warned the students to stay away from windows, but to collect a few belongings and gather in the adjacent lecture hall. There an officer told them, "We are the U.S. armed forces and we are here to get you out if you want to go." Students applauded with joy and relief...
Specifically, all this meant the roof leaked often, a problem that has been rectified by the renovations thus far (they are 95 percent complete, officials say). "Wastebaskets were used more often to collect the leaking water than for trash," remembers one harried administrator...
...week's end the Government announced that the high bidder was Dallas' Republic Bank (deposits: $11.9 billion). Republic assumed the bank's estimated 76,400 accounts and planned to reopen its doors this week; the FDIC will collect First National's bad loans. The passing of the institution into the hands of out-of-towners left some Midland residents gloomy. Said Mayor Thane Akins: "I feel like hanging a black wreath on my door." The merger was one of the largest commercial bank failures in U.S. history, based on the institution's deposits...