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Baseball card collecting became a passion for millions of kids across the nation who strove to collect each year's entire set, trade their "doubles" for eagerly sought cards and augment their education by gleaning statistics off the cards' backs...
...billion in annual child support ordered by courts in 1989, only $11.2 billion was paid and only 11% of those receiving support were AFDC mothers. Under current law, welfare recipients are allowed to keep only $50 in child support. The Family Support Act bolstered efforts to collect the money by requiring automatic withholding from the wages of absent parents. A plan proposed by Ellwood would expand those efforts and add a new twist: collection insurance. In cases in which the absent father could not be tracked down or did not have the money to pay up, the government would...
...said it is more important for theuniversities to be able to agree on need-based aidonly, and for the schools to agreed to collect thesame information from financial aid applicants
Preliminary data suggest numbers that are even better. About 38% of upscale cigar buyers are also millionaires. Better than 4 out of 5 own at least two cars; nearly two-thirds collect antiques; 60% wear a $500-plus watch, while 90% traveled abroad in the past year. This type of demographics can lure a lot of upscale advertisers...
...SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE FATE OF American mias has made little progress in its inquiry into those who prey on families of missing service personnel. Chairman John Kerry promised that the committee would probe possible fraud and corruption by entrepreneurs who collect huge sums from families but have yet to find a live MIA. One reason for the stalemate: ex- Congressman BILL HENDON, who collected tens of thousands of dollars as an MIA activist. Hendon, who should be a subject of the investigation, has been put on the committee staff by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the vice...