Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government now requires banks to keep an eye out for Smurfs, but launderers have developed new techniques. Since retail businesses that collect large amounts of cash are often exempt from the $10,000 rule, launderers have created front companies or collaborated with employees of such outlets as 7 Elevens and Computer-Land stores. To drug dealers, "an exempt rating is like gold," says a Wells Fargo Bank vice president. A restaurant that accepts no checks or credit cards can be an ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs...
Instead, Bok participates in sporadic meetings and cute publicity-generating events, such as the tea party in the freshman dormroom that he attended last week. Bok's isolated efforts to receive student input are inadequate. He was willing to collect a college-wide survey on general issues in 1988, but unwilling to discuss current issues with the students when the decision-making process is in action...
...also called for "maximizing the comptroller's ability to collect revenues" for a $60 million boost. That general provision also was included in the House-passed plan...
...also called for the state to collect unclaimed bottle deposits, which it said could earn $6 million in fiscal 1990 and $24 million each following year. The House, which passed a separate bill Wednesday to collect the bottle money, put a $12 million value on it for fiscal...
...inventory and cues up tunes for customers who punch their requests on a keyboard. The designers may franchise an army of the devices. Behind every great robot, of course, there is a human -- in this case a worker who drops by once a week to replenish the stock and collect the receipts. And maybe, says Carroll, "clean the glass with a little Windex." Even a robot, after all, has pride...