Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hasty Pudding Club, which, under a new plan, recycles its large shipments of bottles through the University, now leaves smaller quantities of bottles in Apley Court for the homeless to collect, said Alexandra L. Fuhrman...
This year's pledge from the major industrialized countries was $24 billion, half in direct grants and credits and half from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and official debt rescheduling. Moscow should collect nearly $18 billion directly from donor countries by the end of the year, but the multilateral agencies have stalled. They require Russia to meet rigorous reform targets -- like 9% monthly inflation, vs. the real 30% rate -- that the country is nowhere near attaining...
...Eastern society. Judging from Cyrillic-lettered Coca-Cola signs and Barbie doll billboards in Moscow these days, the Westernizers seem to have the upper hand in their century-long debate with the Slavophiles. Government ministers and parliamentarians constantly refer to the way the Dutch milk cows, the Americans collect taxes and the Germans dispose of garbage, as if Western practice is the standard by which everything must now be judged. As cultural historian James Billington notes in his book The Icon and the Axe, "Repeatedly, Russians have sought to acquire the end products of other civilizations without the intervening process...
Student activism need not approach the politically-charged issues of naval blockades, peace-keeping forces or U.N. resolutions. Non-partisan humanitarian efforts to prevent genocide should take high priority. The Harvard Islamic Society, with the assistance of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, recently completed a valiant effort to collect warm clothing from students--clothing that will help refugees trapped in besieged cities survive the winter months...
Given the poor return he is likely to get from trying to collect these taxes under the current laws, Clinton's second strategy might be to impose a "presumptive tax" of some sort, possibly a minimum levy on the total sales -- rather than profits -- of foreign companies in the U.S. But that kind of policy could backfire mightily. Germany has declared that if Clinton imposes such new taxation, Bonn will retaliate against local subsidiaries of American firms. With global trade tensions already at a fever pitch and foreign companies increasingly unhappy with conditions in the U.S., any further discouragement...