Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, real Communist' strength remains the big question. Over the past two years, say pacification experts, the Viet Cong "infrastructure" has been whittled down from 128,000 active cadres to 62,000. Nevertheless, the Viet Cong are still able to collect taxes, recruit troops, and cut practically any road in the country, at least temporarily. Knowledgeable observers smile at on-ward-and-upward statistics rating the security of South Viet Nam's towns and hamlets. Solid assessments of enemy strength are made difficult because the Communists in North Viet Nam may be deliberately lying low. Directives have been intercepted ordering...
...been suggested that it will be a great convenience to the students to have letter-boxes placed in each entry at their own expense, so that the postman can collect our letters as he goes on each of his rounds. Perhaps the number of boxes that would be necessary is an objection to this plan; but it would be a great advantage to have some place for mailing letters that would be more convenient than the Post-Office. Why should not an official letter-box be placed under the bulletin-board that has been raised for the weather-reports? Some...
...kinds of materials that are now being junked. But so far, the U.S. lacks enough incentives to make "recycling" economically attractive. Americans have become so prosperous that old ideas like deposit bottles no longer work. Who besides tiny children wants to lug empties back to the store just to collect a few cents...
...always threaten to cut off shipments to Europe, which gets 85% of its oil from them, and to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for 91% of its supplies. They also have an intriguing if not altogether logical argument for higher prices: for every gallon of oil, they collect just a few cents in royalties and taxes-far less than consuming countries collect after tacking on their own gasoline taxes...
...volume on the exchange, and 2) pay some $800 million a year in commissions to member brokers on their trading. The institutions have become all the more displeased because brokerage houses in recent years have started their own mutual funds and now have about 70 of them. The brokerages collect commissions when they buy and sell stocks for their own funds...