Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baseball card collecting became a passion for millions of kids across the nation who strove to collect each year's entire set, trade their "doubles" for eagerly sought cards and augment their education by gleaning statistics off the cards' backs...
...will gain an appreciation of the silly from which you may never recover. You may begin to collect windup toys at airports, catalogs of exotic nightwear, and unemployment ads for stun-gun salesmen...
...Earth Summit treaty would include a provision making genetic materials of all kinds the sovereign resource of the originating country. Nations would have control over who had access to their genetic resources, and if someone else found a way to make money from them, the originating country would collect royalties on each sale...
...billion in annual child support ordered by courts in 1989, only $11.2 billion was paid and only 11% of those receiving support were AFDC mothers. Under current law, welfare recipients are allowed to keep only $50 in child support. The Family Support Act bolstered efforts to collect the money by requiring automatic withholding from the wages of absent parents. A plan proposed by Ellwood would expand those efforts and add a new twist: collection insurance. In cases in which the absent father could not be tracked down or did not have the money to pay up, the government would...
Preliminary data suggest numbers that are even better. About 38% of upscale cigar buyers are also millionaires. Better than 4 out of 5 own at least two cars; nearly two-thirds collect antiques; 60% wear a $500-plus watch, while 90% traveled abroad in the past year. This type of demographics can lure a lot of upscale advertisers...