Word: collectible
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...smile, newspapers hung on her words, her fans bought anything that would get them that little bit closer to the fairy tale. And when she died, the outpouring of grief was accompanied by the urge to spend - as if millions of mourners thought that if they could only collect enough commemorative plates, or read enough biographies, maybe together they could hold on to the woman they had lost too soon...
...break into mature markets like the U.S. would be hugely expensive. So the company decided to run an experiment, communicating with customers only by phone, mail and the Internet. With the money saved, ING Direct could offer a significantly higher interest rate on savings accounts, a handy way to collect customers from conventional banks...
...January’s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
...also asked questions that were not broached on the College’s survey: did students seek out mental health services while they were at Harvard? Where will they be living next year? How much will they be getting paid? Though many of Harvard’s peer institutions collect and publish data on the career paths of Harvard students—Princeton, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania, for example—Harvard does...
...money you had, you had to use wisely otherwise you had none," says Corduff, 53, drinking tea in his kitchen as he muses on the strange course of events that made him, first a jailbird, then a national hero and, earlier this month, took him to San Francisco to collect $125,000 as winner of the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize...