Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional rummage sale is a backyard affair at which the customers gather to buy a neighbor's castoff items -ranging from rusty potato peelers to used refrigerators-at castoff prices. In the past few years, however, the sales have grown too big for the one-family garage; they have moved into farm fields, drive-in theaters, convention halls and even Pasadena's famous Rose Bowl. A far cry from the old neighborhood affairs, which were largely stocked with merchandise from family attics, the new supersales have become major outlets for professional merchants anxious to dispose of leftover goods...
Uncle Antoine mostly drinks and gossips with his cronies while his wife and his clerk attend to the business. It is the Christmas season, Benoit conducts a flirtation with a young salesgirl, and there is promise of festivity. Villagers gather in front of the store to watch the display window being ceremonially unveiled as if it held half the world's treasure. It seems, at first, an innocent time...
Petitions are now circulating in Boston hospitals to gather support for the drive...
...think tanks produce their products? The old answer involves putting several specialists into a closed environment to review the client's problem, gather and analyze the date, and produce a concise conclusion. The specialists work under a clearly defined division of functions and perform the analysis, leaving the decision-making to the client...
...planning inevitably takes time, which means expense and delay. Because of NEPA, the $3 billion trans-Alaska pipeline remains just an idea; not a foot of pipe has been laid. The Cross-Florida Barge Canal is a half-built, abandoned ditch. Plans to link the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers gather dust on engineers' shelves. Ironically, even the federal program to curb water pollution is stalled because of the paper work required by NEPA (some 20,000 separate permits might be required...