Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goods-and-services tax. A six-pack of yogurt and a dozen oranges are tax-free at the corner grocery, but one of each gets hit when bought in a cafeteria line. Self-employed workers earning less than $30,000 a year don't have to collect and pay the tax at all, so a wash-and-set at the hairdresser could cost $10.70 in one chair and only $10 in the next...
Some Nosy premeds have been known to "accidentally" bump a teaching fellow passing back exams and then eagerly help collect them off the floor. Others do permanent damage to the corners of their eyes from sidling up to classmates to feign small talk. One even claimed to lose her contact lens in the teaching fellow's grade book, providing the perfect excuse to rifle through every page...
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt. Two contemporary British scholars, one male, one female, try to collect evidence about a presumed love affair between two Victorian poets, one male, one female. Antonia Byatt, who until recently has been known chiefly as Margaret Drabble's older sister, comes into her own as a novelist (and romancer) of dazzling inventiveness...
AASU members plan to collect textbooks' dropped in bins near the first- and second-year mailboxes in Aldrich Hall at the Harvard Business School. Although the collection bins are at the Business School, book drive leaders said they hope both graduate and undergraduate students will participate in the project...
...place at medical school is valuable because of a variety of social and governmental policies that reduce opportunities to deliver health care and increase the incomes of doctors. Restrictive licensing laws forbid nurses and paramedics to perform simple tasks (or, in reality, allow doctors to collect a middleman's fee). Medical-school places are limited. Medicare and Medicaid expand the market for doctors' services, while doing little to promote competition on price...