Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find it quite extraordinary that students who have willingly accepted scholarships and loans from Harvard for four years, all funded by the generosity of people who have given to Harvard in the past, can, just at the instant when they are about to collect their Harvard diplomas and no longer need any institutional support, suddenly come to the revelation that people should not be giving money to Harvard," he said in an email message last week...
...really possible that he made enough money during the height of his popularity to collect all his toys and head home? Is there any chance at all that it was Reubens who turned his back on America and not vice versa...
...Bill Clinton's cash-crazed drive for re-election, the President opened the White House to all sorts of schemers. But few pitches got more consideration than Mark Grobmyer's curious plan to buy enriched uranium from Russia and the U.S., lease it to utilities worldwide, collect the spent radioactive rods and store them on a tiny volcanic island in steel casks made in, of course, Arkansas...
...gambling joints with the tightly regulated riverboat casinos plying their trade on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. "Any 12-year-old with a credit card can play blackjack on the Internet," he says. "We don't know who owns these companies, what the odds are, whether winners will ever collect. We know nothing...
...government's imperative to collect revenue is often unconnected with morality. In the late 1970s, for instance, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission supported an Atlantic City casino ban on card counters, who were beating the house at blackjack, on the ground that if the casinos weren't profitable other casino companies would not seek licenses, thereby slowing the economic revival of Atlantic City and reducing the flow of state taxes. In other words, the state had a stake in seeing to it that its citizens were systematically relieved of their paychecks...