Word: collection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Maxx on the town lines of Waltham and Lexington (hence the name), is a self-proclaimed party center. Able to accommodate up to 15 birthday parties at once, this rollerway is a child's delight. With games like skeeball, whack-a-mole and the claw, kids greedily collect the coveted green tickets which ultimately render cheap plastic totchkies. With just five wrinkled tickets, boys and girls can get sparkly geometric rulers, gold or silver sheriff badges or a plastic compass. For the more daring entrepreneur, a mini pool table or real set of walkie talkies...
...masters will] collect some data, and see whether they were as safe as they wanted to be and whether students felt that it really was that much more convenient, and then make a decision," Dingman said...
However, among the archived papers in Pusey Library, many of which are destined to collect dust and sit unperturbed in cabinets, there exist theses that challenge the traditional drudgery of topics. Interspersed amongst the hundreds of recent, less engaging synopses, a few unconventional and just plain bizarre titles emerge from the Hollis index. For instance, few economists have ever made a mental connection between the New York Stock Exchange and their bowls of soggy Fruit Loops. It was only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal...
...regulate the profiling of children, the agency seems willing to let the industry clean up its own act with regard to adults. Enter TRUSTe, a nonprofit group that has persuaded 270 of the Web's most popular sites to post and abide by statements telling what data they collect from visitors, how they use that data and how visitors can restrict that use. Web leaders such as America Online, Microsoft and Netscape plan an announcement this Wednesday to address privacy concerns...
Long-distance fees from students in residence are big business for the carriers: the three largest collect hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year from them. But AT&T is making moves to corner the market by beating its competitors rates, making an offer that neither Sprint nor MCI WorldCom would match...