Word: collectivities
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Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later...
...Kroc's dictum that McDonald's would only be as successful as the local restaurant owner is now oriented to pleasing the stockholder, often at the expense of the franchisee. McDonald's has pushed hard to increase the number of stores on the theory that the company would collect more royalties based on increased overall sales. The price for franchisees has been a cannibalization and revenue decline in existing stores when new stores are built nearby. Greenberg counters that demand for new restaurants among existing franchisees remains strong, and that McDonald's program for compensating for the impact...
...into very nearly every one of our friends and allies doing the same thing," says a former FBI counterintelligence agent. In a report last year to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA identified Israel as one of six foreign countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence officials tell TIME that last year U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk complained privately to the Israeli government about heavy-handed surveillance by Israeli intelligence agents, who had been following American-embassy employees in Tel Aviv and searching the hotel rooms of visiting U.S. officials...
Thus began what Provost and her three-member team called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided...
SANTA MONICA, California: O.J. Simpson was a bit more forthcoming about his income and how much he spends on household items in a Friday hearing as lawyers trying to collect a $33.5 million judgment against him investigated his finances. But Simpson still frustrated lawyers by continuing to insist that, try as he might, he just can't seem to find his Heisman Trophy. Or, for that matter, an Andy Warhol painting, not to mention $100,000 in personal loans and $72,000 from the sale of his two cars. Every time over the past year and a half that...