Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that income anyway. (In the past, this loophole meant that an American working for a U.S. company in London could have his salary deposited in a New York City bank, thus largely avoiding both U.S. and British taxes.) Pensions will also increase. A single retired person will collect about $24 a week, a $5.50 increase...
Incompetence persisted. As state auditor, Bond found that the books for the county encompassing the capital of Jefferson City had not been audited for 23 years. The department of revenue had failed to collect at least $6 million in unpaid taxes because it had not bothered to pursue tax dodgers. Of the 125 members of the state auditing staff, only ten had college degrees and only one was a certified public accountant. The legislative liaison officer at the department of community affairs was, curiously, a bartender...
...function of the Political Rights Defense Fund is to collect money to defray these costs and to publicize the case. PRDF's Boston chapter, of which this writer is a member, is presently contacting chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union around the state in an effort to secure their endorsement of the suit. Nationally, prominent people in many fields, who may or may not agree with the SWP's political views, have seen fit to endorse the suit as well. These sponsors include: Eric Bentley, the Berrigans, Noam Chomsky, Rep. Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), Daniel Ellsberg, Jules Feiffer...
...Verkuil, a professor at the University of North Carolina, in gathering the evidence that convinced Congress to adopt the provision. Says Verkuil: "All of a sudden the Federal Government is going to have to be much more cautious. Now a person who has been abused by federal agents can collect...
...glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan was one of the greatest collectors in American history...