Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hearing played itself out to adjournment last week, police continued to collect evidence, at one point leaving Simpson's house with three grocery bags of material and towing away his Bentley. The prosecution said it will not produce at the hearing what most people expect to be the crucial evidence -- the results of DNA testing of bloodstains that could prove whether Simpson was at the scene of the crime or whether blood from the victims was found in his car or at his home...
There are ghosts everywhere. Sparkling incense marks the entrance to the ! "Jungle of Screaming Souls," where the trees and plants "moan a ghostly music," and where Kien watches his battalion wiped out in hand-to-hand combat. He returns years later as part of a Vietnamese team to collect the remains of his men and finds that their souls are still loose, like his memories, "wandering in every corner and bush in the jungle . . . refusing to depart for the Other World." In Kien's mind, asleep or awake, in battle or in peace, the dead talk, and he talks back...
...ones who cash the welfare checks, the reformers are targeting men as well in an attempt to break the pattern of irresponsible behavior on both sides. Clinton proposes that each welfare mother be required to give the name and location of her child's father before she can collect welfare. Men who fail to make payments will have their driver's licenses revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver's licenses of parents...
Rostenkowski, 66, the son of a Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part...
...about 25 minority students protest the lack of minority professors and slow progress in the creation of ethnic studies courses at Harvard. The students rally again the next day and collect more than 500 signatures on petitions in support of their cause...