Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Freshman Courtney Stimpson and Sophomore Eleanor Cunningham played the only five-game matches of the day. Stimpson came back after losing the first game, 8-15, to win three of the next four to collect the victory...
...case, the formula works out to about $2.8 billion). Overall, the Saudis told Blumenthal's delegation last year, their investments have an average maturity of only seven years, and bankers figure they are getting about an average 8% return, vs. the 11% that Kuwait is said to collect on its more adventurous investments...
...cathedral's completion could help to spur the finishing of two grand Episcopal churches in the U.S.-Washington's National Cathedral, begun in 1907, and now stalled for lack of funds, and New York's St. John the Divine. A massive drive is planned to collect funds to complete New York's cathedral, which has been under construction since 1892. But New Yorkers will not get off as cheaply as Liverpudlians have. The estimate just for finishing St. John's: $20 million...
...state income tax--which was defeated 2-1 on a statewide referendum in 1975--combined with a plugging-up of loopholes in the tax laws. She also believes that there should be a strict separation of the services which are provided at the state and local levels. Cities would collect taxes solely for essential services, like fire and police, and the state would spend its tax dollars on social services. This would result in "a drastic reduction in property taxes," she said...
...exact double, though in fact - and Nabokov's smile can be discerned here - there is no resemblance between the two men. Undeterred by reality and convinced that fate has handed him a chance at the perfect crime, Hermann changes clothes with the fellow, then shoots him, intending to collect on the in surance policy through his wife and live blissfully ever after...