Word: collectivity
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...Their pilots crash into mountains all the time, but the Navy just covers it up. It's all hush-hush." A hundred miles east in ("The Loneliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America"), Walter Cuchine heard news of the loud booms and set out a coffee can to collect donations for an antiaircraft gun. "Last year one concussion knocked a Senator off his podium here, but whenever you call the commanders to complain, they say, 'Did you get a tail number?' Of course not. Maybe if we were able to shoot one down, though...
...human performers, fine as they are, simply can't compare to the $10 million worth of eye candy that surrounds them. And perhaps it's just as well: "Showboat" is just what its name signifies, a spectacle that's meant to dazzle and entertain--and collect admission. On these terms, this "Showboat" scores a resounding success...
...menopause. It's made from the urine of pregnant mares and involves the pain and torture each year of nearly 100,000 helpless adult horses. For most of their 11 months' pregnancy, they are confined and tethered in narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated urine, these helpless mares are denied adequate amounts of water and suffer from dehydration, in addition to a host of other illnesses. Within...
...find it quite extraordinary that students who have willingly accepted scholarships and loans from Harvard for four years, all funded by the generosity of people who have given to Harvard in the past, can, just at the instant when they are about to collect their Harvard diplomas and no longer need any institutional support, suddenly come to the revelation that people should not be giving money to Harvard," he said in an email message last week...
...government's imperative to collect revenue is often unconnected with morality. In the late 1970s, for instance, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission supported an Atlantic City casino ban on card counters, who were beating the house at blackjack, on the ground that if the casinos weren't profitable other casino companies would not seek licenses, thereby slowing the economic revival of Atlantic City and reducing the flow of state taxes. In other words, the state had a stake in seeing to it that its citizens were systematically relieved of their paychecks...