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...think we coming into the game we may not have been as fired up as we had been,” she said. “We recognized what we were doing wrong at halftime and we were able to collect it for the second half effectively...
...Alternative Senior Gift campaign began last week partly as a reaction to the official Senior Gift campaign, a student-led effort to collect money from Harvard’s graduating seniors...
...public sector, leaving public funding high and dry. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., said recently that he intended to get “tough” on corporate America—just like every previous Democratic nominee. But if the government has not yet worked out how to collect taxes from 60 percent of U.S. companies in the middle of an economic boom, then it is hard to imagine that the situation is going to improve anytime soon. A better option would be to give up: corporate taxes are remarkably inefficient, consistently failing to raise the revenues they should?...
...wind power for one week will mean that the House will emit about 25 tons less carbon dioxide—the equivalent of two Goodyear blimps—said resident tutor David M. Thompson, who is spearheading the initiative and set up a table in the House lobby to collect money to fund the switch...
...taxes are not an option--they're a necessity. The only relevant question is, Which taxes? The case for a gas tax is a straightforward one. Gas prices are strikingly lower in America than anywhere else in the world; such taxes are relatively easy to collect; since an overwhelming majority of Americans drive, few avoid the tax; and by adding a cost to the wanton consumption of gasoline, you actually encourage conservation, accelerate fuel efficiency, reduce pollution, cut traffic and help wean Americans off the oil that requires the U.S. to be so intimately involved in that wonderful cesspool...