Word: collection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will make it easier for people who have been ripped off by crooked landlords and fly-by-night repairmen to collect the compensation they deserve," said Elizabeth R. Pope '98, director of law reform of SCAS...
...worked with Higher Source for more than six years on several computer projects discussed the imminent coming of the Hale-Bopp comet with them. "They didn't know, but they felt it could be something other than a comet--that maybe it was a spaceship coming to collect them," the acquaintance says. He says he even joked with them about Jonestown once, but got little reaction. This man last heard from the group just a few weeks ago; they wanted help setting up some new domain names on the Internet. "They talked about the future a lot," he says. "That...
Inside, purposeful people stride down endless hallways, past frosted-glass doors with signs denoting COLLECTION, AUDITING, INFORMATION--and one that reads OFFICE OF ACCURACY AND PERFECTION, ROOM 7513. But within the empire of the largest and most successful tax and enforcement agency in history, there is nothing resembling perfection. Like the old Soviet Union, grand and powerful on the outside but an antiquated shambles within, the IRS has profound problems with outdated technology and outmoded thinking that have undermined its self-described mission: "To collect the proper amount of tax revenue at the least cost...
...days after his son and namesake leaped to the stage to collect an Oscar, Cuba Gooding Sr. was in rehearsal for a gig on the Sunset Strip. Lead singer of the '70s group Main Ingredient, Gooding still performs in clubs and theaters. He says that in Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from...
...while students were consulted in the center's planning stages, no large-scale study ever was conducted to collect student opinion prior to the February survey...