Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clocks in the plazas ring out on these May days, and the three of us confess how fascinated we are by clocks. We admire them, collect them, and feel thus that we own time, or at least the mystery of time, which is to imagine it running backward or speeding us to our meeting with the future, until we reject that idea and define all time as the present: the past that we not only remember but that we imagine, as much as we imagine the future, so that both will have meaning...
...Medical School collected $13.5 million in reimbursements for 1990, when the rate was 77 percent, and under the provisional rate, the school expected to collect $16.3 million...
After two failed swings at trying to extend jobless benefits for nearly 3 million U.S. workers, Congress and President Bush finally agreed last week on a $5.3 billion compromise package that could give some of the unemployed new checks by Thanksgiving. The agreement would allow workers to collect up to 20 weeks of extra checks after they have used up their initial 26 weeks of benefits. The duration of the additional benefits will depend mostly on individual states' jobless rates, with recipients in the more severely affected regions getting payments longer. The measure will be financed largely by speeding...
...according to Karin Sherbin, a spokesperson for the university, the university met all of the GEO's demands except one: it refused to collect fees from graduate student employees who are not GEO members...
Lacayo did find that preparing the privacy story made him more sensitive to the proliferation of efforts to penetrate personal privacy. Having learned that data companies collect the addresses and phone numbers of people who make credit-card purchases, he began to notice how often he is asked for that information by shop clerks. And he says he's more aware now of video surveillance cameras in stores and workplaces. "It's hard not to feel a bit more vulnerable to intrusions I was just dimly aware of in the past," says the determinedly unparanoid writer. "But I've resisted...