Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Instead of spending $27,567.17 to send one Cong to his Maker [Oct. 14], I suggest we hit the guy with a Sears, Roebuck catalogue dropped from a plane with a $200 credit coupon good for anything but firearms. The catch: he would have to come to Saigon to collect his refrigerator. Watching how my Vietnamese go to work on a catalogue, I know it will work...
...cute he feels singing them. All right, but the Righteous Brothers claim to be the white interpreters of Negro soul music; the thought of James Brown, the quintessence of soul, being anything but absolutely sincere about his own music is absurd. These two don't interpret; they capitalize. They collect their $7500 per performance and make anyone who credited them with being honest musicians feel like a sucker...
They hope to collect from volunteers short written reports of incidents that could give an insight into the distinctive characters of the three cities...
...addition to misinterpreting the law, the FHA costs the government millions of dollars with its inefficient management practices. The FHA fails to collect its due in interest charges from builders and leaves the way open for intentional defaults, through which unscrupulous investors can make money at the agency's expense...
...down its losses, the FHA should develop a more thorough system of determining actual land values and building expenses, and begin to collect interest as soon as ground is broken for a project. The subcommittee should not miss the chance to force these reforms upon the FHA. Nor should the Senators neglect to hold the agency to the spirit of the law by financing only low-rent housing that can have a legitimate effect on urban slums...