Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas morning a nearly frozen John Steward crawled out from the cardboard box across the street from Columbia University. He has lived there for two years, but because it's not a valid address, he can't collect welfare. The lone nickel inside his coat pocket would hardly get him breakfast. But Steward wasn't worried. While he was panhandling for spare change the day before on upper Broadway in Manhattan, someone handed him a booklet of vouchers good for a dollar's worth of food at any of seven local stores. Trading them in for a bagel and coffee...
...Crimson a full house as the clock wound down, with Harvard clinging to its one goal lead and facing 1:38 of a penalty kill (1:09 of which was 5-on-3) to end the game. Mike Latendersse, already with two goals on the night, failed to collect an easy centering pass in the slot. He had room to gun past Harvard's Tripp Tracy on the short side, but the puck slid under his blade to the near corner...
Though scarcely visible in the fight for the crime bill, the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban, Clinton got the message last week. The President threw out a blizzard of proposals: banning gun ownership by children, requiring tighter licensing and training of gun owners, an amnesty program to collect illegal weapons. Cabinet members chimed in as well. Attorney General Janet Reno talked of limiting the number of weapons an individual could own. Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General...
...former Congressman with a civil-service pension, Social Security, a military reservist's pension and a federal widower's annuity might collect $110,000 in total government income...
...couple in their late 60s with an income of $84,000 could also collect $27,000 in partly taxable Social Security and Medicare benefits...