Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next year, the city will need a projected tax levy increase of 5.4 percent. But unless the city overrides Proposition 2 1/2, which determines the legal levy limit, the city will only be able to collect a 3.3 increase, meaning a funding shortfall of nearly $3 million...
While Harvard's record of compliance with copyright law is good, that record does not shield the University from the costly and time-consuming process. Harvard administrators now say that the added costs of obtaining permissions, along with a corresponding rise in the royalty fees publishers collect from such permissions, may force them to raise the price of many sourcebooks...
...less. You see, when you make the transition, there's about $80 billion of depreciation that's out there. So you have to account for that. And that's why ((I set the rate)) at 13%. But this thing might be lower than 13%. The idea is to collect the same amount of money as was collected last year...
Inside, there is order. Here Santana (Olmos), in California's Folsom State Prison for murder, finds fulfillment as leader of the Mexican Mafia gang. He runs an operation to collect "rent," which can be cigarettes, knives or drugs. The idea, as the protagonist frequently reminds us, is simple: once you control the inside, you control the outside...
Next time a stranded friend calls collect, the familiar phrase "Will you accept the charges?" could have a distinctly different sound. Last week AT&T announced that it will replace as many as a third of its 18,000 long-distance operators by 1994 with a computerized voice system. Known as voice-recognition technology, it will handle calls made collect or person-to-person as well as those billed to a third party...