Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone to take their own, with the idea that we would not look at other students' papers--and to my knowledge, no one broke that inspiring confidence the university had in us. By contrast, in expository writing at Harvard last year, we had to make special appointments to collect our papers because in the words of my expos teacher, "We can't just leave them unattended!" Why not? Does Harvard not even trust us to act honorably when picking up a paper? If so, are its suspicions warranted...
...Maxim Boyko, a Harvard-trained economist, and Yevgeni Savostyanov, an activist and disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...
...chafing under austerities imposed by the International Monetary Fund, which has refused to release a $600 million standby loan if Islamabad cannot remedy its budget deficit in order to service its $28.6 billion in foreign debt. To that end Bhutto had raised taxes--but her government did not collect enough revenue and at the same time raised the level of discontent. On Oct. 29, in an effort to appease the imf, Bhutto gave up the finance portfolio she had held since retaking the government in 1993. "The debt servicing is breaking our backs--debt that I didn't incur...
...COLLECT CALL FROM LONDON...
...From my perspective, it's just another way for health care providers to collect more money," said Professor of English and American Literature and Language Daniel G. Donoghue. "If you make 20 visits to the doctor, that amounts to another months' premium...