Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While in office, Catania backed reforms enabling pregnant women to collect unemployment benefits, strengthened child support laws and shocked the Illinois legislature by breast-feeding her baby between legislative votes...
...Hubbard a World War II hero who miraculously cured himself of nearly fatal combat wounds, as he claimed. Hubbard never saw combat. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he was granted 40% disability pay for arthritis, bursitis and conjunctivitis. He continued to collect this pay long after he claimed to have discovered the secret of how to cure such ailments...
...partial freeze on civilian programs, in combination with social-spending cuts that Reagan still hopes to wring out of Congress, would whack about $40 billion out of expenditures in the next fiscal year. But that would still mean spending roughly $175 billion more than the Government could hope to collect in taxes. That deficit would be barely below the $180 billion to $185 billion now expected in fiscal...
Cancer specialists cannot afford such bravado. Most of their patients do not recover. "When you see as many people as I do," says Arnold Brody, "you collect quite a stable of sick friends. Then they start knocking off. It's like losing a friend every month . . . Year after year after year...
Horne's teammates followed her lead Stewart grabbed boards with a minute left got fouled, and went to the line to collect. With 45 seconds left, the Crimson was only down by live, 52,47. All Harvard needed was the ball. But B.C held on the Crimson scored three more points, while the Eagles nearly matched its efforts, with two of then own from the line...