Word: collect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about toughness in a very tough business." He also learned, as an adolescent rent collector, that he didn't much like that kind of work. "It's much easier," he says now, "to sell an apartment to Johnny Carson or Steven Spielberg for $4 million than it is to collect a couple of dollars of rent in Brooklyn...
Architect Richard Hayden of Swanke Hayden Connell, one of the designers of Trump Tower, calls Trump "a wonderful guy to work for," but he found himself sued for various Trump dissatisfactions and spent more than two years trying to collect his fees. "That's the way he finishes his jobs," says Hayden. Trump has even less decorous ways of being difficult. Architect Scutt recalls & that when Trump Tower once fell 15 days behind schedule, Trump kicked a chair all the way across a conference room. "He ruined a new pair of Gucci loafers," says Scutt. "He always has to have...
That is not a problem with the system designed by Thermedics in Woburn, Mass. It uses jets of warm air to collect vapors given off by either luggage or the clothing of passengers, who would be required to step into a three- sided booth. The vapors are then subjected to six different computerized chemical tests that together take about 25 seconds. In a five-day trial run at Boston's Logan Airport last October, the system, which would cost roughly $250,000, nabbed 50 out of 50 test samples sent through...
...protect" the foreigners and their possessions from theft by jealous Chinese students. The Africans objected in a letter to university officials, denying any need for protection. Then they tore down the wall. The Chinese deducted the cost of the damages from the $75 state stipends that the black students collect each month. In reply, 54 African students occupied the campus bank that handled the penalty transaction, dispersing only after the university president promised full reimbursement...
Take Chris Renner, 26, who helped create Food Partnership Inc. outside Los Angeles. It troubled him that food banks were spending a fortune in transport fees to collect donations. With the help of the California Trucking Association and United Way, he worked out a method for trucks to transport food between donors and food banks when they were returning empty from a long haul. So far, the program has carried nearly 4 million lbs. of food and saved the food banks $55,000 in trucking fees...