Word: collection
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REAP was designed to collect taxes from evaders and delinquent residents and raise future tax compliance rates. The program offered residents a three-month amnesty to pay the state taxes without being penalized, increased the sentences imposed on long-term tax evasion, implemented the services of private collection agancies, set a fixed interest rate on overdue taxes and improved customer services...
...year American farmers discard millions of pounds of potatoes that are too unattractive to send to market. Why can't this otherwise good food be distributed to the needy? That's what Ken Horne, 42, and Ray Buchanan, 40, asked themselves in 1983. The two Methodist ministers began to collect unsold potatoes from local farmers and distribute them to food centers. Since then, the Potato Project has sprouted in 47 states and has shipped a total of 56 million lbs. of spuds (the equivalent of 165 million servings) to 250 anti- hunger agencies...
...visitor sometimes feels trapped in a hall of mirrors. For external debt, the rate is 70 cordobas to the dollar. The official rate for visitors is 9,500 cordobas to the dollar, while the flourishing black-market rate is up to , 18,000. A briefcase is needed to collect the exchange on a $100 bill -- unless the exchange is in small-denomination notes, when a suitcase might be more useful. "The Sandinistas have made all of us millionaires," jokes a vendor at the Masaya bus terminal in Managua, pocketing a 5,000-cordoba bill for two lemonades. "The trouble...
...city was nearly convulsed by a bindingreferendum on limiting animal experimentation incity laboratories. However, the CambridgeCommittee for Responsible Research, the localanimal-rights group sponsoring the referendum, wasunable to collect the 3800 voters' signaturesnecessary to place it on the ballot. The matter islikely to be resolved by a special three-membercommission that will report to the City Councilafter the election...
Following an emotional setback at Cornell a few weeks back, Harvard rebounded to collect consecutive league wins over Dartmouth and Princeton...