Word: collectivities
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When Timothy Spahr finally knocked off work on Jan. 13, after more than 10 hours on the job, he figured he was at last done for the night. Spahr's task as an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in Cambridge, Mass., is to collect reports of asteroids that might one day pass near Earth. On that Tuesday, he had been processing observations from an automated telescope in New Mexico when he noticed a pinpoint of light that might fit the profile. He calculated the object's orbit and, as usual, posted the information on the Minor Planet...
...guilt is one reason he gave her the name "Ka," after the good angel of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's also why he gets her to read The Book of the Dead with him. A dew breaker, we will learn, is a torturer who goes out before dawn to collect his victims...
Alan Greenspan was on an irascible roll last week, first dissing everyone who holds a fixed-rate mortgage--suckers!--and later picking on folks who collect Social Security: Get back to work, Grandma. In between, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board scolded the big mortgage firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which make homeowning more affordable, for taking too much risk. In a couple of days' work, Greenspan went through sacred cows like an overzealous Atkins dieter...
...independent, Nader has to gather signatures in each state to get his name on the ballot—upwards of 1.5 million in total. Texas, the first deadline, requires Nader’s volunteers—he will not hire help—to collect 64,000 signatures by May 13, an enterprise that Texas Democrats will undoubtedly hinder...
...month-old 24-hour shuttle service has been extended through March in order for the administration to collect more data about student use, according to College officials...