Word: collectable
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...People killed in a stampede in Lucknow, India, when women rushed to collect free saris handed out to celebrate the birthday of Lalji Tandon, a close associate of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee...
...taxes are not an option--they're a necessity. The only relevant question is, Which taxes? The case for a gas tax is a straightforward one. Gas prices are strikingly lower in America than anywhere else in the world; such taxes are relatively easy to collect; since an overwhelming majority of Americans drive, few avoid the tax; and by adding a cost to the wanton consumption of gasoline, you actually encourage conservation, accelerate fuel efficiency, reduce pollution, cut traffic and help wean Americans off the oil that requires the U.S. to be so intimately involved in that wonderful cesspool...
Other colleges make an effort to collect and publicly release senior survey data. Columbia University’s Office of Student Affairs conducts an optional Enrolled Student Survey and then begins an open process of discussion and interpretation of the results, including focus groups to address the issues raised by the survey, according to the Columbia Spectator. Many state schools are also required to release data to meet institutional accountability requirements and some make them available to prospective students on the internet. When schools like Harvard refrain from sharing their data, however, they cannot help but appear as though they...
...forgiven, upon your arrival at the Burj Al Arab hotel, if you can't believe you're in the Middle East, that forsaken corner of the world that seems doomed to endless war, terrorism and zealotry. The chauffeur of your Rolls-Royce Silver Seraph will collect you at Dubai's palm-studded airport, transport you past the shimmering skyscrapers and finally pull up to a resort that feels a lot more like Las Vegas than Arab sheikdom. Here, in an awesome, sail-shaped edifice as tall as the Eiffel Tower, obsequious staff will conduct you to one of the Burj...
Whereas 11 graduates received LRAP benefits in 1999, 65 alums collect aid from the program this year...