Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever works according to the system. Someone in the family has to do it." Two years ago, when Cassandra's drug habit became uncontrollable, Sweeney says the social services informed her it had no home available in which to place her grandchildren. So the next day Sweeney went to collect the boys. Her daughter, high on drugs, slumped on the couch, while men walked in to buy drugs from someone upstairs. Cassandra was using cocaine, PCP and Ritalin. A social-services caseworker told Sweeney she could ; not take her grandchildren, but she did anyway. After she got them home, they...
...thought it out. His idea: reduce the tax rates on income up to $82,150 from 15% and 28% now to 13.5% and 26.5%; keep the present 31% rate on further income up to $200,000 but raise it to 38.5% on amounts above that. Supposedly these changes would collect the same amount of revenue as the present rates, but more equitably. Clinton also would allow entrepreneurs to exclude from tax 50% of their capital gains, but only on profits from money invested in new businesses and kept there for five years. He would grant tax credits on purchases...
Their presence has sparked a pitched battle between bird lovers and sleep lovers. Hoping to soothe ruffled feathers on all sides, the city council is willing to try behavior modification. Later this month, Iowa peafowl farmer Dennis Fett, who will collect $200 a day and expenses for his advice, will conduct seminars for frazzled residents on how they can cope with their troublesome flock. Then he will try to draw the birds, Pied Piper-style, to open parts of the city...
...Brescia, the league polled 24.4% to edge out the Christian Democrats for No. 1. In the next general elections, which could come as early as this spring, the league plans to run candidates for $ Parliament throughout Italy; some polls indicate that the league and like- minded groups could collect 21% of the vote...
...evidence remains strong that bones are being warehoused in Vietnam. Moreover, the central government's efforts to collect remains held by its citizens have been halfhearted at best. A week after our trip to Suoi Pai, we traveled to Ho Chi Minh City and put out the word that we were interested in MIA bones. Leads flooded in. A Vietnamese military officer passed along photocopies of the personal effects of three servicemen that supposedly came from graves dug up by impoverished soldiers in Kontum province...