Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cable operators pay a franchise fee of 3 to 5 percent of gross revenue back to cities and towns. This rate is set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Massachusetts law stipulates that cities can only collect 50 cents per subscriber. This means that a city like Cambridge with a 50 percent penetration rate (that is 20,000 out of 40,000 households) could collect only $10,000 as opposed to a possible $300,000 based on six million gross revenue...
...dealers are, in effect, extending free credit to the farmer, assured that they will be paid when the PIK grain is sold next fall. AGRI-PIK charges manufacturers an enrollment fee of $1,000 to participate in this plan; dealers pay $100. For each transaction, AGRI-PIK will collect a l½% commission from both the farmer and the dealer. Says President Ronald Posluns: "We can move the farmer's buying power up from fall to spring." And make this growing season a lot less painful for those who rely on the farmer's business...
...added that the group hopes to collect at least 1000 signatures by Friday night, before it mails copies of the petitions to the Polish Embassy and the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva...
...HRSSS plans to follow the petition to campaign with a drive to collect used clothing and send it to Poland later this spring. Members said the plans were prompted by deteriorating economic conditions in Poland...
...Alexander has an arsenal of information at her fingertips, her prose style is swift and pleasing. She handles a story well, and her melodramatic style suits this story in particular. Once Jean Harris begins to find her clothes slashed to pieces and splashed with Mercurochrome and begins to collect her rival's homemade "Super-Doc" badges and shred them into he backyard pool. Alexander is in her element...