Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trust leaders such as Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who controls 77% of B.C.C.I., to stand behind their debts and those of their subjects. And they see no need to keep records for the taxman, since the six Arab states in the gulf collect no taxes...
...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...
...movie star, nee Karen Teitel, makes her screen debut in infancy, moves on to kiddie westerns and eventually becomes a major cinema celebrity. En route she passes through every Hollywood vicissitude and fashion, from child abuse to blacklisting to Vietnam protests to exercise tapes. She also manages to collect a series of husbands and lovers, most notably movie executive Jack Markel, who has all the Hollywood requisites: he is 30 years older, married, with strong ties to the Mob. David Freeman's pop tragedy contains snippets of biographical detail from the lives of Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Jane Fonda...
...Americans faced 200 years ago" -- and occasionally seeking guidance from the same sources. At one point, addressing representatives of the republics, Gorbachev read excerpts from an Alexander Hamilton essay in The Federalist Papers to back up his advocacy of a federal tax system under which the central government would collect at least some revenues directly. He was trying to steer them away from proposals, primarily from Yeltsin, for a plan in which the republics collect all the money and pass on a portion to the Kremlin...
...closer watch on Popocatepetl near Mexico City. And shortly after Pinatubo first showed signs of activity in April, the U.S. Geological Survey sent to the Philippines a team of scientists equipped with seismometers, tiltmeters (to measure tiny shifts in the slope of the mountain) and laptop computers to collect and analyze data. Several of the instruments, however, were obliterated by last week's eruptions, hampering efforts to figure out the volcano's next gambit...