Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boswell, a California company that is one of the largest U.S. producers of cotton, may collect nearly $20 million in subsidies this year, according to a preliminary estimate by the Sacramento office of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), which administers subsidies for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Salyer American, a Corcoran, Calif., cotton producer, may collect more than $3 million. As huge as these payments sound, Boswell insists that it might not turn a profit without them. "It is ludicrous to believe that we will be sticking any Government money in our pockets," says Boswell Spokesman Walter Brown...
Besides real estate tax the city will collect,the Pudding also owes money to the University forsteam heat and to a bank for mortgage payments onwhich it has fallen behind...
President Kennedy referred to Harriman as a "separate sovereignty," and in truth he operated as a kind of independent fiefdom, communicating with other sovereigns on his own terms. He acquired friendships with powerful world leaders the way other men collect stamps...
...change money, take a trip, stay in a hotel, or go to the bathroom. If your form says you only have 100 kyats but you come to the hotel with 500, they know you've been playing dirty, slap your wrists and send you back to "Go," do not collect...
While 10,000 registered voters' signatures can secure ballot status for the most bumbling of Republican gubernatorial candidates, the Massachusetts Election Commission required her to collect 40,000 as a third-party candidate. She failed to do so, and was disqualified...