Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collect for the future," King said. "It will be available when some historian in the year 2010 decides they want to know what was going on in the 1980s...
...promises, recycling remains only part of the world's waste- disposal solution. Despite the enormous energy and enthusiasm with which Americans and others collect recyclable products, the real breakthrough can come only when similar effort is expended on reducing waste in the first place and in enticing more markets to absorb recycled materials...
...fraternity. But the bad, smart owners are at heart corporate raiders, playing with other people's money (not the stockholders' but the taxpayers'), fleecing the locals and then fleeing them. Cushioned by the largesse and insecurity of city administrations that are strapped to pay teachers or collect the garbage, rich men play the new, high-stakes version of polo: passing civic assets on to other rich...
...proposal that has won the tentative backing of both the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry could clear the way to quicker drug approvals. The plan, which is scheduled for congressional consideration in September, would allow the FDA to collect $75 million from drug companies in application and other fees each year for the next five years. Each individual application would cost $150,000. With the money, the agency expects to hire 600 additional reviewers and cut its average approval time for the most important drugs from 12 to six months...
...technology looked a lot less cute and friendly to telephone operators in June as AT&T installed similar systems in Seattle and in Jacksonville, Florida. The phone company has developed a computer system that can recognize words like "collect" and "person to person" about as well as any human. By the end of 1994, when AT&T is scheduled to finish deploying the new equipment across the U.S., it plans to close 31 offices and eliminate up to one-third of the jobs now held by 18,000 long-distance operators...