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Word: collectivities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parts of this week's cover story on privacy, associate editor Richard Lacayo had to look at companies that collect and sell information on the bill- paying history of almost every adult American. Last year Richard sent off for a copy of his own credit report. What would that personal experience tell us about the story he was investigating, we wondered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...even worse scandal, miners say, is a federal law that makes it nearly impossible for miners with black lung to collect disability payments. Congress drastically tightened up on such compensation in 1981 in response to coal- industry pressure and fraud among miners claiming benefits. In the past, miners with 15 or more years of employment were presumed eligible. That provision is gone, and miners must prove that they are totally disabled. In the two-year period before the change, nearly half of black lung applicants were approved. Now just 4% prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found the savings bonds and the photo albums. "I got an armful of suits and two pair of shoes," recalls John. The kids, watching from the station wagon, began screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aftermath: How Do You Rebuild a Dream? | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...sees it, spying is preferable to radio communication "100 to 1," because it allows the visiting intelligence to collect information about non-technological species (which SETI does not) and it supplies military advantage, should that be necessary. Like Tippler, he discredits the SETI advocates' notion that cost and difficulty would keep extraterrestrials from visiting Earth, citing the same technological advances...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: TUNING IN TO THE UNIVERSE | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...aren't from the art school gang, they're off to a new job every year or two. They [the jobs] usually never pay more than 28, 30 [thousand dollars] a year. But they'd much rather do that than sit. I don't think anyone honestly expects to collect a single penny they pay into social security. I think everyone acknowledges that it's going to go bankrupt or kaput. The day you want to go collect your money the system will have just gone bankrupt buying a jewelled stereo system for Jane Fonda's walker...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: Doug Coupland Speaks On the Trail of Generation X | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

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