Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started looking for transportation to take them home. Ghana Airways scheduled six flights a day from the Nigerian capital of Lagos to Accra, Ghana's capital, and some 10,000 Ghanaians paid $60 each to go home in relative comfort. The Ghanaian government sent six ships to collect thousands of its stranded citizens who began packing the docks in Lagos the day after the expulsion order. By the time the first ship arrived, more than 30,000 people were waiting on the quays. In the scramble to get aboard, several plunged into the harbor; at least one drowned...
Other interested parties write with an eye towards relieving Harvard of some of its financial resources. One gentleman asked for one million dollars to collect butterflies He adds, "You're a big, strong University, you can could stand the strain of lowering one million dollars down here [Although] ropes ought creak a bit, sweat might...
...annual requests are for doctoral dissertations or essays that have won Harvard awards such as the Bowdoin Prize, which numbers among its winners such alumni as Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Students who win writing awards at Harvard are required to donate copies of their essays before they collect any prize money...
...victory against an indigent criminal like Herrin is often largely symbolic. Says Boston Attorney F. Lee Bailey: "Violent criminal defendants are generally penniless. You seldom collect." There are exceptions. Some infamous criminals have earned nest eggs by writing, or selling the rights to, their stories. Happily, it is becoming harder for these criminals to profit from their misdeeds. Fifteen states, including New Jersey last week, have adopted so-called Son of Sam laws, named for Multiple Murderer David Berkowitz, which lock up proceeds from books and other ventures to satisfy claims by victims or their survivors. One such moneyed killer...
...final scenes were of O'Connor glumly skating across center ice to collect his Eberly Trophy as the best goalie, and then, as on every second Monday night in February since 1979, of the Eagles watching another team accept the Beanpot...