Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industry has resisted the creation of reasonable regulation," Dassenko told a group of the reinsurers from whom Transit is now trying to collect. "As a result, dishonest, unethical and incompetent competitors play on the same field with honest businessmen who exercise good judgment." In effect, the bad guys charge too little for insurance, living high on the hog and then just putting their companies into bankruptcy when the claims come due. "The end result," says Dassenko, "is that the good businessmen suffer twice: first by losing business to the bad guys whose rates they can't match; and then again...
...Collect company literature and explore career possibilities before it is too late. There is a wealth of information available to help you with your career quest. Take advantage...
Starting October 5, the group plans to collect newspaper, white paper, cans, bottles and glass three times a week in central recycling rooms in all houses and academic facilities...
...mediocrity: they are too big, too impersonal and too general to accomodate much original thought. We soon learn to take the midterm, write on one of two "suggested paper topics," take the final, and get a B-plus. Go directly to concentration jail. Do not pass go, do not collect $20,000 tuition refund...
Half the compounds are manufactured by chemical and pharmaceutical companies; the rest are provided by botanists and ethnobiologists who collect folk medicines and exotic living materials like the bark of the Pacific yew tree, from which scientists extract Taxol, shown to be effective against ovarian cancer cells. The researchers are looking for "natural" cell killers harvested from such remote locations as the Brazilian rain forest and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Even ground-up seashells, sponges and coral starfish are studied for chemicals that might show some ability to fight cancer...