Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...owners who want to dump their vehicles and collect from their insurance companies can sometimes go directly to a salvage yard for assistance. A Passyunk operator explains how it works: "Say you got a guy who can't keep up the payments on his car. You call me, the junkyard, and I'll tell you to leave it in a parking lot somewhere with the keys, as well as the title for my own protection. I give you a coupla hundred dollars, I sell the parts to a body shop, and they get resold to an insurance company. Meanwhile...
...Beirut and social programs that had created widespread Shi'ite loyalty. Last year eight of its candidates won seats in Lebanon's 128-member parliament. Symbolizing the new look, groups of Hizballah supporters lined the main road between Beirut and southern Lebanon last week, holding out plastic boxes to collect relief contributions from motorists...
Allen rejected that request in harsh language, suggesting that Harvard stood little chance of winning a suit in his court to try to collect damages...
Tutundzic, 69, is standing in the mud on the banks of the Miljacka River, where scores of people have come to collect water. She is crying. Clad in a black skirt and green woolen jacket, with her hair tied back with a ribbon, she has dressed as if she might be going to lunch with friends. To get there she walked along the airport road dubbed Snipers' Alley, and she does not flinch at the crack of rifle fire and the occasional thud of exploding shells. "I have seven people at home, and my friend was supposed to meet...
Judith B. Warren, director of finance and accounting for Harvard, says the University has made a concerted effort to collect the money it is owed in Massachusetts and elsewhere. She says the manager of accounts payable wrote every state treasurer in the country last year asking them if they had funds due Harvard, and received several positive responses...