Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York and Chicago, Burnett was monitored by the FBI on a 24-hour basis. He continued trying, unsuccessfully, to win a contract for S.R.S. to collect payment on $300 million worth of Chicago parking tickets, a process that involved alleged payoffs to four aldermen and a city administrator. S.R.S. Owner Bernard Sandow boasted to Burnett that the company had also bribed important New York City officials. The FBI was listening in: Sandow's bragging may have resulted in last week's indictment against Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former New York parking-violations-bureau official accused of extorting some $313,000 from...
...ankle; Manes eventually admitted that the wounds were self-inflicted. Soon after, Manes' associate, Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former official in the city's parking- violations bureau, was accused of extorting $410,000 in cash, trips and theater seats from agencies that had been granted plump city contracts to collect unpaid parking-ticket fines. Queens Attorney Michael Dowd, a collection-agency owner, is reported to have told federal prosecutors that it was Manes who ordered him to pay bribes to Lindenauer to safeguard a lucrative city contract that had netted his firm some $2 million...
...institutions kept giving the debtors tide-over loans, which had barely enabled borrowers to meet their payments on old debts. The strategy allowed bankers to pretend on , their books that the loans were solid ones, but it led to endlessly increasing debts for the borrowers. If banks hope to collect on those loans someday, they may have to accept the idea of giving the borrowers a break on interest rates, even though it will eat into their profit margins...
Lobbyists cannot afford to rely solely on well-reasoned arguments and sober facts and figures to make their case. In the scramble to win a hearing, they have developed all manner of stratagems designed to ingratiate themselves and collect IOUs...
Chandler, who scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds against the Quakers, went on to collect Ivy League Player of the Week honors...