Word: collect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert A. Havern (D-Arlington) said the House did not back the idea because many representatives doubted whether the $46 million figure were correct. He said the money would also be difficult to collect...
...Sullivan added, "If he'd pay me as a temporary worker, I'd go out and collect signatures...
Some people collect Victorian hatpins. Others accumulate matchbooks. Mel Poretz, 60, is a compulsive collector of useless information. He knows exactly how many steps there are in his Merrick, N.Y., split-level home (21). As a child he knew how many stars surrounded the mountain peak in the Paramount Pictures logo (26 originally, now just 22). And like many people who are happy in their jobs, he has found a way to put his obsession to work...
Californians are starting to calculate their risks a bit differently. Rene and Tony Donaldson live near Stanford University. Their $425,000 home escaped major damage in the Pretty Big One, though the tremors did smash their collection of American Indian pottery. "Now I know why California Indians didn't have a pottery tradition," Rene says with the deadpan cool of a real Californian. "In the future we'll collect baskets instead." But the Donaldsons are also looking into quake insurance, which they turned down when they bought their house four years ago. And while they are still determined to stand...
Opponents of Proposition 1-2-3--which would drastically change the city's rent control system by allowing some tenants in rent controlled unites to buy their apartments--severely criticized CHOA last year for using temps to collect the signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot...