Word: collection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Belize, the former British colony on Mexico's southern border. Briceno was charged with conspiring to smuggle more than 1,000 pounds of "controlled substances," including marijuana, into the U.S. Drug agency officials said that Briceno was a major marijuana supplier in his country and was visiting Miami to collect a down payment on a consignment...
...months, AT&T has bombarded consumers with an advertising campaign designed to convince them to pick AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T as their long distance phone carrier AT&T operators encourage callers to choose their company with each collect call they assist, while actor Cliff Robertson (who one AT&T executive described as "literally dripping with integrity") declares to TV viewers that "the more you hear, the better we sound...
...THINK ABOUT AT&T SERVICE." AT&T does have more operators than the other firms, which generally do not provide the operator service necessary for collect and person-to-person calls. Under the Equal Access regulations, however, it will be possible to reach AT&T (and all other carriers) by dialing a five-digit number even if you choose a rival firm as your primary (dial 1) carrier. Romano confirmed that which ever long distance company you choose, "there will always be an AT&T operator available" if you need...
...prosecution successfully that in 1979 and 1980 von Bulow tried to made, his wife in the New port mansion because he wanted to collect her 14 million inheritance-and because he had fallen in love with a soap opera star who reportedly told von Bulov that he would have to choose "either...
Life is growing ever more litigious for the bodacious Hunts. The Internal Revenue Service is attempting to collect from them more than $230 million in back taxes arising from the silver speculation. The Texas-size case--one of the largest IRS claims ever against a family for a single tax year--grows out of $163.1 million that was transferred in 1980 by Bunker Hunt and his wife Caroline to their three children and two sons-in-law. The Government contends that the transfers were gifts and that the elder Hunts owe some $112 million in gift taxes. Family lawyers deny...