Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...handguns in the city. "Up until the past couple of months we've been doing what the N.R.A. wanted, and look where it's got us," says Dan Ullrich, spokesman for the Campaign for a Better Milwaukee. "Halfway measures haven't worked in other cities." The group hopes to collect the necessary . 20,300 signatures by mid-January, forcing the city council either to pass the ban or place it on the ballot in either April or November...
...police, no questions asked, for tickets to Nuggets, Broncos and Rockies games or tickets to the Museum of Natural History. But buybacks tend to run out of steam and over budget. Minnesota's Hennepin County, which offered $50 a gun, spent more than $300,000 last year to collect 6,100 firearms. Even at that price, buybacks don't offer much incentive for criminals whose guns are more valuable as tools of the trade...
...ASSISTANT HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY DAVID ELLWOOD, ON A CLINTON PROPOSAL TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR FAMILIES TO COLLECT WELFARE...
...took Warren Christopher not one but two trips last week between Jerusalem and Damascus before he managed to collect enough good news to end his Middle East mission. By Thursday the Secretary of State was able to announce that if there was nothing he could do to stem the violence between the Israelis and the Palestinians, he had at least managed to end Syria's boycott of the Middle East peace talks...
...contrast to their bottles, the Mather men also collect fish, which are housed in the common room's three tanks...