Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linowes commission found that too many Americans are being hurt unnecessarily. The commission reports that many private investigators do not double-check data that may be wrong often gather far more information than is needed and sometimes use illegal methods. While people have a legal right to know what information is kept about them by credit bureaus- so that it can be corrected- they do not have a similar right to inspect files maintained on them by private investigators, insurance companies and other businesses. Says Linowes: "There were enough stories of data misuse to suggest that the potential for abuse...
...time not too long ago when Bluhdorn, with his truculent, toothy grin, used to say, "We are not a conventional company, and we are never going to be a conventional company." Maybe. But that kind of talk is rarely heard now that some threatening storm clouds have begun to gather over Bluhdorn's outfit...
...Manhattan has been ransacked. One Texas convert says he was kidnaped while celebrating Passover with his brother, a rabbinical student, and held for days of "deprogramming" until he renounced Jesus. The most extreme opponent is Hesh Morgan, whose militant Anti-Missionary Institute plants spies in Evangelical groups to gather information and assigns youths to disrupt meetings and heckle speakers. It is "literally a war." says one Los Angeles rabbi...
...youths have captured Soweto-partly on their own, partly because their elders failed to lead. And the townships will never be the same. True, some aspects of the old Soweto still exist: the neatly kept gardens of middle-class black homes; the Dube Lawn Bowls Association, whose members still gather every Sunday in their English whites; the Zionists, an Africanized Christian sect, famous for their daylong religious dances that begin at prayer services in backyard tents on Saturday nights...
...export markets. The U.S. consumes only about two-fifths of its wheat crop, relying on foreign buyers to gobble up the rest. Another bounteous global grain crop is forecast for this year, which will further soften demand for U.S. wheat. The Soviet Union, for example, is likely to gather in a near record 215 million tons of grain this year, just 4% less than last year's peak...