Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stem from any disrespect for the law. He personally has no quarrel with the Social Security system, and believes it is fine-for those who need it. But it is a tenet of their religious belief that the Amish people should take care of their own. They do not collect unemployment or welfare benefits. They do not buy insurance of any kind. By an act of Congress in 1965, self-employed Amish men are exempt from paying Social Security taxes on religious grounds. But the act does not cover Amish men who work for Amish employers. It is this apparent...
...extra day in space probably added significantly to the mission's cost -NASA would not say by how much - but it provided 20 hours more to collect scientific data. During that extra time, Columbia's instruments monitored a surprise eruption of a huge solar flare, a fiery burst of hot gases from the sun's surface. Such plumes often reach thousands of miles into space and give off a flood of charged particles that can play devilish tricks on spacecraft. In 1979, Skylab, NASA'S abandoned space workshop, came crashing prematurely to earth after its orbit...
Today China cooperates with the U.S. on remarkably varied and important undertakings. There is a joint program to collect intelligence data on Soviet missile tests. Trade has risen from virtually nothng a decade ago to $5.5 billion last year, and the U.S. has become China's third-anking partner in commerce (after Japan and Hong Kong). Some 80 American companies have established offices in Peking, and the Bank of China has started a branch in New York City. Last month China opened 58,000 sq. mi. of potentially rich offshore oil grounds to competitive bidding by 46 oil companies...
...July. Several times. I had heard that Jesus Christ didn't get into an Ivy League college because he got nailed on the Boards. Also that the Educational Testing Service (ETS) scores the tests by kicking them downstairs or by flipping coins. At the College Board, they collect jokes like this and tape them to the outside of their office doors. It helps them feel they're in touch with the outside world...
...second question, requiring a two-thirds majority, would allow the city to collect an extra #10.2 million, completely overriding the fiscal 1983 Prop 2 1/2 cuts...