Word: collect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College is beginning to collect surveys sent to parents of undergraduates in February...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...
...Treasury Department wants to make permanent an IRS oversight board to help supervise the computer upgrade. The plan would allow for more outside consultants to help with the computer overhaul. The plan also would let the IRS contract with private businesses to assist with processing tax returns and collect on tax deadbeats, an initiative that could be ripe for its own pitfalls if, for instance, collection agencies are given the authority to garnish wages or seize bank accounts. Another important reform: changing budgeting procedures. Congress currently funds the IRS on a yearly basis, making long-term planning difficult. The Administration...
...last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs for some 3.7 million of America's neediest students. But critics are worried too that getting more people into college will lower education standards at public institutions, which spend more on each student than they collect in tuition and don't have big endowments to fall back on. Already in Georgia total state spending on colleges is up, while spending per student is down...
...followed old-fashioned police techniques, quietly went about their business and it paid off. It looks as if they have cracked this case.? The suspect, whom the Los Angeles TImes reported to be t ied to a Russian car theft ring, was tracked down after an informant attempted to collect the $100,000 reward offered by The National Enquirer. Police, who are also questioning two other men in the murder, reportedly located the gun used in the January slaying after the informant identified the area where it had been dumped...