Word: collectivities
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...when the killing of five Japanese fishermen and three whites at Caledon Bay in Arnhem Land prompted plans for a punitive police expedition, he lobbied the Federal Government to send him as peace broker. Despite officials' fears that he'd be killed - and a request, which he refused, to collect skulls while there - Thomson set off in 1935 to calm tensions and, he hoped, document for policymakers the needs and culture of a people about whom almost nothing was known: "I was to show them that a European was prepared to trust them...
...Colorado, for example, Nader will get on that ballot by paying $500, while in Texas, Nader will have 60 days to collect 65,000 signatures from people who do not vote in Texas’ March 9 Democratic and Republican primaries...
...think that would be really good for the mental health of freshmen,” said HoCo chair Adam Kalamchi ’05. “The College could force students to really collect themselves that year...
Delay Takes Its Toll Made in Germany " no longer appears to be a label of engineering excellence. Last week, German Transport Minister Manfred Stolpe canceled the government's €5.4 billion contract for a high-tech motorway toll scheme for trucks after the system operator, Toll Collect, failed to solve technical problems with the trucks' onboard GPS units. The decision to abandon the ill-fated venture - it was scheduled to start in August 2003 before being postponed - is an embarrassment for the top players behind it. Deutsche Telekom and DaimlerChrysler had banked on the system as a possible export. Since...
...fragile art and books safe—the Villa frequently funds top-notch restorations of the canvases on its walls. These paintings one day will be important for a researcher and may wind up in a museum. In a similar vein, the Fogg Art Museum’s collections serve art history students, but they also provide a rich collection for public visitors, and (equally important) collect and catalogue and preserve and restore artwork of extreme significance. Houghton Library is a fantastic resource for literary scholars; but of equal credibility is its mission of meticulous preservation of monumental books...