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Word: collectivities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tasuku Tsukada reversed previous denials and admitted to TIME that Nagano's campaign had paid $363,000 to a Swiss-based agency run by Goran Takacs, son of Samaranch's friend Artur Takacs. Tsukada insisted the agent was retained only to act as liaison with I.O.C. officials, "not to collect votes, as people are saying happened in Salt Lake City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The Olympics Were Bought | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...site also encourages supporters to collect and submit further information, ostensibly to be used at some future point when abortion may be outlawed and providers will be put on trial. To abortion-rights advocates, however, the pages, with their bloody graphics and ominous content, read like a detailed hit list, designed to terrorize doctors and keep them from providing the legal service of abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fighting Within Bounds | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...advisory committee wondered whether to muzzle him after Ventura mused that his wife ought to collect a state paycheck for running the mansion and planning soirees. But Jesse's appeal to voters was that he comes unwrapped, so the advisers left him to his ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Rumble | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...FARC officials really believe that they could govern their own nation. Along the Caguan River, in southern Caqueta province, the rebels have created their own public services, including agricultural banks. FARC toll booths along the rugged dirt roads collect 2,000 pesos ($1.25) a vehicle for improvements. And the FARC recently held a local election under quasi-Marxist rules, which meant that voters could choose among candidates from a single FARC-supported party. Afterward, a FARC leader assured TIME that the party's success will spread. "We have every intention," he said, "of governing as much of this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backyard Balkans | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...than CIA agents working for Washington. Saddam is a poor candidate for victimhood, but last week his protests got a boost as a leak-and-leak-again battle between the U.N. and the U.S. spun out. The suggestion: U.S. spies had used UNSCOM, a purportedly neutral U.N. commission, to collect lethal targeting intelligence about Saddam while masquerading as independent inspectors. It was a shocking charge--as if Girl Scouts peddling cookies were also casing your house for a burglary--and American officials were quick to shoot back. We may have spied, they said, but we spied only to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bugging Saddam | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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