Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California court picked Richard Gano, another cousin of Hughes. A potential challenge to this arrangement was being set up by public administrators in Los Angeles County and Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas); they applied last week for court permission to take over the Hughes holdings in their areas and collect taxes and commissions...
...usually worked towns with populations between 7,000 and 25,000, where he reckoned that people are more trusting than in street-wise big cities. Stores and gas stations in these towns often stock the blank counter checks of state banks, and he would simply go in and collect a clutch of such paper. Then with a shoe-box-sized checkwriting machine, he would imprint the amount of the check in a neat, official-looking script. The amounts were always the same: a small odd-dollar figure that seemed like a reasonable weekly wage. For years it was $89.25; inflation...
...only been told that the investigator will collect statements from both Morrison and me," Bowman said. Morrison submitted a response to Bowman's complaint to the Placement Committee in January, but both he and members of the Committee have declined to discuss his statement publicly...
...Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected housewife who seduces an insurance salesman into helping her murder her husband to collect the settlement. The languorous turns of the plot combine with the shadowy camera work to create a sordid, shabby world of moral decay...
Cunning Bid. Many small businesses have closed because their owners could not afford to make money. Pop Singer Lill Lindfors and three other vocalists decided not to collect $108,000 in royalties from their recording company; they would have had to pay more than that total in taxes. Lennart Kjelson, a physician, wearily declared he would continue a part-time job at a school only if they ceased to pay him. In culture-proud Sweden, where some writers are awarded state-guaranteed incomes, under the new rules an author who does nothing but collect his state income can be better...