Word: collected
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Report Your Local Pusher The Wild West bounty system that put a price on men's heads and waited for others to collect has its modern applications. The Tampa, Fla., Chamber of Commerce initiated a "Turn in a Pusher" program almost six months ago, and the response has been a combination of Gunsmoke and James Bond...
...obligation to finance the U.S. citizen abroad or to pay his fare home," insists Ralph Cadeaux, chief of special services at the U.S. consulate in London. Some 300 young supplicants call on Cadeaux every week. In bona fide emergencies, he lets them call home from the consulate-collect. In Paris, only the seriously injured, the infirm and those with a hardship story good enough to make strong men weep have any hope of parting the consulate from $235 for air fare home and a $40 subsistence allowance. Of the hundreds of hard-luck kids whom consular officers interviewed last year...
...founder is still slightly mystified at the collector instinct that his operation has uncapped. Says he: "Some retired people wait for the new medal each month and call the neighbors in to see it. Some businessmen get an issue and put it away without a second glance. Many people collect because it makes them feel like an expert in something." Not necessarily in investing, however. Many coin dealers refuse to handle the relatively small number of Franklin medals that come on the market, claiming that they are unworthy of numismatic attention. Segel cheerfully replies that some of his issues have...
...Stripping Allowed. The industry's second set of difficulties involves the increasingly tough demands of ecologists, who object to the effect of coal mining on both the air and the land. Leading coal producers are working hard in both areas. Scientists have already developed precipitators that can collect most fly ash inside furnace stacks, and they believe that a solution is in sight for the more serious problem of sulfur-oxide emissions. Another controversy is over strip mining, which accounts for a third of all U.S.-produced coal. In response to criticism of the desolate condition in which stripped...
...budget. While Lindsay fumed, Republicans and Democrats hammered out a budget, in the process shelving a new pension plan that the city had worked out with municipal unions. It is one of the most generous pensions ever offered to U.S. workers. Upon reaching 55, a retired worker could collect half pay after 20 years on the job and full pay after 40 years. Since pensions already devour 11? of every dollar paid in state and city taxes in New York, the legislature balked. For the first time, it refused to rubber-stamp a city-approved pension...