Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After losing to Columbia for the last two years, the men's tennis team decided to collect, taming the Lions, 7-2. Sparked by the victory over Columbia, the Crimson went on to capture the EITA title...
...with many environmental efforts, the greatest obstacle to plastic recycling is old-fashioned laziness and indifference. Many communities have been unwilling to set up the apparatus -- and allot the funds -- needed to collect and transport the waste. Even if encouraged to recycle plastic waste, many citizens find it too much trouble to sort through their garbage, sifting out the plastic peanut-butter jars and toothpaste tubes from other debris. Curbside collection -- forcing citizens to separate recyclable garbage -- is what some communities demand. Three states, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Florida, require residents to sort their garbage for collection...
This year's team is a new and improved version of last year's crew. But even the shiniest products collect dust. Will inactivity mean another semifinal defeat...
...INNOCENT PAST. The corner gas station dispenses "service with a smile," and Mickey's of Hollywood peddles nothing racier than T shirts with a mouse emblem. Even the local sanitation man (one of many character types crowding the street like Preston Sturges comedy characters) has refined tastes. "I collect only the garbage of the stars," he proclaims with delicious snoot. Hollywaste. Tinsel trash...
...Harvard, however, work is seasonal. Although "Harvard workers used to be able to collect unemployment during the summer," Bozzotto says, that changed in 1985. At that time, former President Ronald W. Reagan declared university jobs "temporary employment...