Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote, the commission would modify a 1970 regulation decreeing that the networks could not collect any money from U.S. syndication of shows. Now the networks will be permitted to buy syndication rights to a prime-time entertainment show, in hopes of reselling them at a profit after it becomes popular. More significantly, they will be permitted to buy a share in a show's eventual profits from syndication...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
...London last month, two men set up a phony business firm, then hired security guards to present forged letters and forged drafts to collect gold coins from bullion dealers. At the same time, one accomplice sawed through local telephone lines, while another intercepted the bullion dealers' calls to check on the letter and draft. The four men thus hauled in 2,400 gold coins valued at $1.2 million. Three days later, thieves broke into the projection room of the Classic Cinema in Hastings and spirited away a 50-lb. reel of Return of the Jedi. Police assumed that within...
...days, eleven Pennsylvanians died, apparently of pneumonia; a Legion officer alerted health authorities that the victims all had attended the convention. A phone call was made to Atlanta for help. Late that night, Dr. Theodore Tsai, an EIS officer, arrived in the state health office, carrying a cooler, to collect blood samples and respiratory secretions. He was the first of 32 CDC officials who worked on the case...
...payments, and price supports for crops help sodbusters as well as other agricultural producers. Entrepreneurs apply for price supports and, as required by federal law, take 15% to 20% of their cropland out of production. In effect, range plowers break prairie land that may have little agricultural value and collect money for keeping it out of cultivation. Says Bernie Spanogle, district forest ranger at the Pawnee National Grassland in Colorado: "People are farming the federal crop programs, not the land...