Word: collections
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When Smith lost his job at Chrysler in 1982, he was too young to collect Social Security so he took a new job as a security guard. Two years later, his world began to unravel. "Everything just went bad at one time. It waited until I got retired. If I had been working, it would have been different, but I had retired before everything started to happen...
...credit cards and charge accounts, double their annual income. That November, Carolyn Smith died. With the loss of her Social Security income, Smith struggled. His situation was further complicated by a run of misfortune. He was hospitalized after a stroke; he had cataract surgery; the friend who promised to collect his pension and Social Security checks and make his mortgage payments didn't, and the mortgage company moved to foreclose. That's when his Chapter 13 case collapsed--as happens in two-thirds of all Chapter 13 proceedings--and he was switched to Chapter 7. Now he's awaiting...
...events. Although sport is one of Dyke's priorities, he has already ruled out paying the vast sums being demanded to broadcast England's top Premier League football games live--the price is expected to be more than double the $1.18 billion broadcasters paid in 1996. "We cannot just collect money from license payers to give it to footballers," he said. Rupert Murdoch-controlled, pay-TV group British Sky Broadcasting, which invested more than $1 billion for the rights to broadcast 60 live games each season through 2000-01, is determined to keep Premier League football...
...such as Christopher Wysocki, president of the Small Business Survival Committee, a lobbying group in Washington, believe taxing e-commerce would put the entire Internet sector into a tailspin. Says Wysocki: "It would change the rules of the game for dotcom entrepreneurs, who would find it nearly impossible to collect and distribute sales tax for the 7,500 state and local taxing jursidictions across America. To survive, many would probably move their businesses offshore. That could really jeopardize the long-term health of the digital economy...
These companies do the dirty work of the telemarketing industry--they collect personal information, and then sell it for a profit...