Word: collectivity
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...enforcement experience and highly rated "persuasive skills," Diane finished near the top of her CIA training class. Posted to a Soviet-bloc country, she was so good at evading surveillance that headquarters gave her the sensitive job of meeting moles. She once hiked for miles across frozen fields to collect documents from a frightened communist official. "You look into the eyes of a man on a cold, snowy night, and you realize this guy has risked his life to come and give you this information," she says. The man's face had flooded with relief when he sensed that...
Certainly his campaign's financial health is improving. As chairman of a powerful committee, he has been able to collect political-action committee money almost at will. After he became chairman, he arranged fund raisers for himself, at which Tele-Communications Inc., the Motion Picture Association of America, News Corporation and Time Warner, among others, were hosts. Sheila Krumholz, a research associate with the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, says she expects Pressler to at least double the $145,367 in pac contributions he received from the communications industry during his campaign in 1990. "This is the biggest bill...
...today, Rep. Bill Thomas (R-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means health subcommittee, advocated raising the eligibility age for Medicare from 65 to 67 in the next century, in tandem withSocial Security. It would be "crazy," said Thomas, to grant people Medicare benefits two years before they can collect full Social Security. Raising the age would leave many people in that age group uninsured or underinsured during a vulnerable period of their lives...
...white Birmingham, Ala., firefighters successfully objected to 14 city promotions of blacks, complaining that they had been "passed over" despite scoring higher on the promotion exams. A U.S. appeals court had struck down Birmingham's quota plan as unconstitutional. In the second case, the justices let a white man collect $425,000 from a Pittsburgh company he accused of denying him a promotion because of his race. Though many Court-watchers are looking for signs of thecurrent Court's stance on affirmative action, TIME law correspondent Adam Cohen warns that such case refusals "have no precedential value at all." Instead...
...city expects to collect a total of $145,623,133 in taxes for fiscal 1996, of which 41.1 percent is used on educational programming...