Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because the new system bills long distance calls to individual passwords, collect calls are difficult to handle and bill. A $10 fee will be charged to the line for every collect call students accept, according to the user's guide...
...Cutting the tax on capital gains from 28% to 19%. As investors rush to collect their gains at lower tax rates, this measure would yield as much as $5 ! billion in new revenues next year. (There would be a tax loss later...
...plot out the town. That year -- and any other, according to a town history -- he was good for a suit of clothes, or a railroad ticket, or the rent money, when someone was down on his luck. After the Depression, my father told me, F.H. made no effort to collect debts. He had never been much good at retrieving his money, which was odd for a man who in one lifetime used up all his family's financial-brilliance genes for several generations to come. While he was still a boy learning English in Michigan, he lent money...
...most. Even if the production level were not increased, Saudi Arabia should sweep in an extra $38 million a day if prices stabilize at $25 per bbl., while the United Arab Emirates should increase its take by about $18 million. The biggest winner may be Libya, which will collect an additional $9 million a day and, unlike the Saudis and other gulf states, will not pay part of any bill for keeping U.S. and other forces in the gulf. It is one of the ironies of the current crisis that Muammar Gaddafi, the man perhaps most feared by Westerners until...
...River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers who collect filth from affluent , neighborhoods and deposit it in vacant lots in stealthy forays at night...