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Word: collectivities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN. Conn.--In a conservation effort. Yale last week started paying six students of Yale Recycling, a formerly all-volunteer group, to collect old news papers for recycling. "The Yale Daily News reported last week...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Recycling for Pay | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

...something like the Japanese system of lifetime employment. The company said it would give employees with 15 years on the job at least 50% of their current wages until retirement, regardless of whether they were working or not. An employee laid off after 25 years, for example, would collect about $240 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ford Out Front | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...boot is part of a streamlined effort to collect delinquent parking fines, made possible by a statute passed as part of the 1982 state budget, which allows city officials to impound cars directly instead of waiting for a court order, Teso said...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: City Parking Violators to Get the Boot | 2/17/1982 | See Source »

...them against her enormous German bosom ... a very symbolic scene worth remembering." When Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, "was very broke, in desperation he telephoned to the Daily Mail an announcement that he had died. A long defamatory obituary duly appeared, and Douglas was able to collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Curmudgeon | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...this point in our history, it should he clear to all of as that change is not a matter of new lows and systems. The most thorough-going changes in the way people collect many and spend, it, the way they raise crops or build machines, the way they vote or don't west prove puny and anemic up against the forces--of good, hunger for power, racism and the must--that seek to dissolve them. You cannot legislate those righteous phrases into being: you cannot compel with and justice and love. If you pass a law against segregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1982 | See Source »

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