Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no exemption in the [state] statue for illegal income, for illegal goods. It doesn't say anything about if it is illegal you don't have to collect...
Whether those assets are immediately found is not imperative. Houghteling said that once the state levies its tax bill, it will have six years to collect. "So if three years from now [a dealer] buys a house on the Cape, that could be held to pay off his tax tab," she said...
...wake of the gun-turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...April last year when city assets were temporarily frozen after East St. Louis failed to begin payment on a $3.4 million judgment arising from the beating of one local jail inmate by another in 1984. The city is now beset with dozens of lawsuits. Firemen have sued successfully to collect three years of back uniform allowances, only to be told that the award left no money in the till to pay their salaries. A bill making its way through the state legislature will erase the deficit in the current budget and finally put an end to payless paydays for city...
...Supporters of Proposition 1-2-3, a measure allowing some tenants in rent-controlled housing to convert their apartments to condominiums, submit a petition with 7000 signatures to the city Election Commission, calling for a ballot referendum. The 1-2-3 proponents have actually collected more than 15,000 signatures, enough to force a special election on the question, but they decide that their chances of victory will be greater in a regular election. On election day, canvassers are paid to collect signatures in support...