Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NAME, RANK and serial number for identification date to the early part of the century, when battles were still being fought with bullets and bayonets. But combatants in today's wars are not just killed, they are sometimes obliterated, dog tags and all. So last week the Army began collecting blood and tissue samples from new recruits, part of an ambitious "genetic dog tag" program that will eventually enable pathologists to identify the smallest tissue specimens by cross-matching to genetic samples stored on file. The Pentagon aims to collect specimens from all 2 million active service members...
...impact here and now is bad enough. Although experts disagree about how much of a macroeconomic drag the deficit represents, there is no question that it has severely hamstrung the government. Voters have a point when they complain that Washington doesn't seem to do anything anymore except collect taxes; but they should understand that the existence of a $400 billion deficit -- created in part to pay for programs that voters themselves demanded even as they opposed new taxes -- severely limits the kinds of things the government can accomplish for the commonweal. Moreover, the size of the deficit means that...
...shoppers: No new sales taxes. For now. Thrifty consumers who bought more than $183 billion worth of merchandise by mail last year welcomed last week's Supreme Court decision not to allow state taxation of out-of-state mail-order sales. But in rebuffing North Dakota's effort to collect a use tax from the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire, Ill., the nation's largest mail-order office-product supplier, the high court punted the issue back to Congress and cleared the way for future legislative action authorizing states to impose use taxes on out-of-state consumers...
Cash-hungry state officials will lobby hard for new laws forcing mail-order companies to collect taxes from out-of-state customers; the state-government lobby claims that this would add $3 billion to their coffers this year. If permitted, California could have raked in $417.8 million in mail-order sales taxes last year alone. But this is a tough sell in an election year when jittery lawmakers get plenty of mail from catalog-shopping constituents. As Representative Byron Dorgan of North Dakota put it, "The large catalog companies have the ability -- and they've done it in the past...
...Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favor of lifting the ban. But no one knows if the House will pass the measure with enough strength to override a sure veto from Bush. It is too close to call. Faced with that uncertainty, Bush last week proposed creating a bank to collect fetal tissue from ectopic pregnancies and spontaneous abortions for research. But researchers quickly responded that naturally aborted fetal cells are often damaged and thus unusable for therapy. Looking for some political leverage, Bush portrayed the vote as a loyalty test for Republicans...