Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soft-sell pitches for the party: "If you're up at this hour and can't sleep because you're worried about your oil-depletion allowance, this program is not for you." The organizers hope to have 10,000 volunteers manning phones in 35 cities to collect donations. Arrangements have been made with two credit-card companies to allow their 51 million card holders to charge their contributions...
...upward on a $2.1 billion Navy order for 30 Spruance-class DD-963 destroyers, a new model to be used primarily for antisubmarine duty. Although the contract is designed to hold Litton to fixed prices, it allows for inflation and some other variables that may permit the company to collect additional sums. Some estimates put the eventual cost of each new destroyer at $100 million, v. the $90 million that the Navy deems appropriate; the question is how much of the extra cost will be paid by Litton and how much by the Navy...
...their present $750 personal exemptions, with the result that most people would have at least part of their $1,000 grant eaten up by higher taxes. After this complex tax jiggling, McGovern's initial estimates were that a family of four with an income of $8,000 would collect $2,000 from the Government. A family with a $12,000 income would collect nothing. Families earning more than $12,000 would suffer progressively more severe tax increases...
...their endless occupation. Residents of Majdal Shams, a Druze town under snow-capped Mount Hermon in the north, are outspoken about their feelings. "Syria is our mother," says Sheik Mahmoud Safadi with patriarchal scorn. "Israel is our stepmother." One complaint appears to be that the Israelis are trying to collect taxes. "We never paid the Syrians, and we won't pay the Israelis," a Druze shopkeeper said indignantly. Yet Arabs are quietly making their own accommodations; they have little choice. In the Gaza Strip, where production of citrus fruit has doubled since 1967, Arab growers have begun to take...
...safer and more popular form of symbolic protest, according to Robert Calvert, coordinator of the New York-based War Tax Resistance center, is to stop paying the 10% federal excise tax on telephone bills. The money involved is small, and the telephone company can't collect it. One phone company tried cutting off the service of a Mississippi protester. It was reinstated after she complained to the Federal Communications Commission. The phone company practice is simply to inform the IRS of the protester's refusal and take no further action. The number of phone resisters doubled from...