Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to be opportunities can often turn into pratfalls. In early August the fcc auctioned off licenses to provide two-way TV over cellular systems. A total of 178 companies submitted winning bids totaling $215 million. Yet nearly 30 of the winners soon defaulted, and the government expects to collect only about $130 million of the original amount...
...muses, when we need her? And never mind that the Jacob King figure is an obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead, page-turner approach might have worked...
...villages like Ganthier and Petit Trou de Nippes, half the young men live in the brush. They return to town in the morning, after the army patrols have stopped, to collect food and money from their parents. In Ganthier, the local priest says the men fled after soldiers discovered that they had formed a group to discuss politics. "They just want to kill somebody," he says. "The people are living in hell." Even the mayor of Port-au-Prince, Evans Paul, lives in hiding. Ever since paramilitary thugs shot up city hall last September, he has not returned...
...curtail auto traffic and raise money for repairs, many park managers aim to charge higher entrance fees. As vacation destinations, the parks remain an absolute bargain, usually costing only $5 to $10 a vehicle. Half the national parks charge nothing at all. A park-service proposal to collect entry fees on a per-person basis, instead of per vehicle, would raise about $73 million to help offset the repeated budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of rangers and depleted maintenance programs...
...rent control Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection successfully challenges the validity of the signatures, any referendum would be delayed at least a year, as the anti-rent control Homeowners Coalition would be forced to re-collect signatures...