Word: collection
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...were moving back to normal after a four-month chill. The standstill had been provoked by Netanyahu's decision to build a new Jewish settlement in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, and that in turn led Arafat to restrict security cooperation, curtailing intelligence sharing and easing up on commitments to collect weapons, jail militants and stop calls to violence. On the Monday before the bombing, Israeli and Palestinian officials announced that at last the two sides would resume negotiations on outstanding disputes, paving the way for Ross to present an American initiative aimed at striking specific compromises. But the upbeat news...
...their fieldwork. But lately that's changed. With the contraction of federal science budgets and the expansion of the World Wide Web, private research is going decidedly public. From astronomy to epidemiology to archaeology, more and more professionals are finding that when you're looking for lab assistants to collect good data at a bargain price, you can't beat the amateurs on the Internet...
CONCORD, N.H.: That was no suicide, says librarian Shirley Barron. That was my husband, driven over the edge by the IRS in its attempt to collect $330,000 in back taxes, penalties and interest. Remembers Barron: "He didn't sleep very well. He was nervous and fidgety. He lived on Maalox." Armed with a telltale suicide note (the IRS "sits, does nothing, and watches you die"), Ms. Barron now hopes to collect $1 million in compensation under a recent tax law amendment designed to keep too-passionate IRS agents at bay. Undeterred by feelings of guilt, the taxman has slapped...
...less media-saturated than the U.S. The actor won a court order to prevent Playgirl from distributing any more copies of its August issue, which features two-year-old snapshots of him sunbathing in the nude with then girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately the judge did not order Playgirl to collect the 300,000 or so copies that were already in subscribers' mailboxes and on newsstands, thus creating a publicity bonanza for the flesh mag. Pitt is pursuing a lawsuit, despite the fact that the images are available on the Internet. Meanwhile, straight from the file marked Tales of the Expected...
...fray and loving it. Tuesday, Clinton was offering political cover to legislators who support hiking Medicare premiums for wealthy seniors. "I would be happy to defend the vote of any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who votes for this," Clinton said. He also proposed that the Treasury Department collect the premium increases rather than the IRS, so that seniors don't get confused and think they're faced with a tax hike. "It's very important now to complete the job and get a balanced budget agreement," Clinton told reporters. "We've now come back and offered them another...