Word: collections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family will receive the standard welfare payment of $4,200 a year. When he lands a job, the family benefits drop back to $2,300. Above all, this phase of the program keeps the family intact. The father is not tempted to leave home so that his family can collect welfare...
...equipment over the next three years will be financed entirely out of earnings; this will leave sufficient money in the Con Ed till to continue paying quarterly dividends, which were resumed after the 1974 hiatus and were raised to 500 a share in January. Additionally, a program to collect delinquent accounts more quickly has cut down the time of the average unpaid bill from 59 days in 1973 to a present tolerable level of slightly more than a month. These changes have helped bring about a sharp earnings turnaround: Con Ed's net income rose by 55% last year...
...Linowes commission also found that insurance investigators often collect data from neighbors on people's sex lives ("Is she promiscuous?") and marital histories, even though no studies show that either affects life spans or accident rates. The investigations are sometimes shoddy because many firms employ part-time students, off-duty policemen, housewives and retired people as probers. James Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was refused auto insurance by Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco because of phony information obtained from an elderly neighbor, who was mad at Millstone because...
...another case, a 17-year-old runaway kept calling her parents collect. Using phone company records, Beltrante tracked her to a rundown house in a West Coast city. Not long ago, the wife of a federal judge asked him to check what her husband was doing while traveling to hear cases. She had the names of the two credit cards he used -enough for Beltrante's sources in the credit card companies to report on the errant judge's one-night stands. Trailing His Honor on a trip, one of Beltrante's agents watched him pick...
...admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...