Word: collectable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circulate the regulations covering financial eligibility for rent aid. Harvey demanded a copy and, as a member of the House's housing subcommittee, got one immediately. To his astonishment, Harvey found that under Weaver's HHFA-approved rules relating to the elderly and the handicapped (who could collect up to 70% of their rent from the Government), applicants might qualify for federal subsidies even if they had personal net assets as high...
...debts at the end of the sabbatical year. For centuries Jews have got around this by turning the debts owed them over to a religious court by means of a declaration called a prosbul (Greek for "before the council"). According to the rabbis, it is lawful for courts to collect debts even though individuals cannot...
...head to work in her purse. The real and the unreal merge, and soon her human victims appear. The first is a suitor (John Fraser) whose conventional acts of gallantry lead to a gruesome end. Later an indignant landlord (played with mordant, bumbling humor by Patrick Wymark) comes to collect his rent and lingers to try his luck. Right up to the grisly climax, the audience seldom wonders what will happen, but endures agonies as to how and when...
...Philadelphia magistrates are authorized to collect $1, payable to the city, for signing releases for pre-hearing prisoners. Specter's affidavits show that 19 magistrates routinely extracted up to $25 per prisoner. Magistrate Earl Lane was arrested on evidence that he overcharged at least 170 times...
...form of fines, which were ap portioned to each executive's ability to pay. Stephens earns $175,000 annually, and last year his company also set aside for him a "deferred reward" of 1,209 shares of J. & L. stock - now worth $77,500 - which he will collect when he retires. He was fined $25,000; Barton was fined...