Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...break even, not collect revenue from parking violations," he said...
...Harvard Advocate, Fall 1993, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 1: Cinque Henderson '94 writes the magazine's "Notes from 21 South Street" on recent Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. He confesses, "...I collect Toni in every form available: pictures, posters, articles, essays. We've got signed first editions of all her novels except the expensive ones. We have her on tape--video and audio. We have copies of her only published short story, her only published poem. And we hang her all around the house." And if Cinque liked the President, the secret service would be going through his trash right...
...Crayton insists that the balloting was inconsistent, and that there were several times during the four meals set aside for the election when council executives were not present to collect votes...
...have to collect Julio Carranza, the young deputy director of the Communist Party's Center for American Studies, at his house. He has no gas for his car, and his neighborhood is blacked out. We enter another world when we sit down with him and Monreal in the gilded elegance of Havana's Ferminia Restaurant -- dollars only. Wolfing down real meat, the two thirtysomething economists paint glowing pictures of a wondrous second-generation Marxism where quasi-private enterprise pays for the nation's broad social safety...
...plaza, has loosened his tongue. For 30 years his life was good, he says, until dollars were allowed. "I worked, I earned my pay, my family could live just like my neighbors." But he has no family in the U.S. to send money, no relatives working in tourism to collect tips. "Some people can have dollars; I only earn pesos," says Alberto. "The people with dollars can buy a pair of shoes, and I cannot. Why should my neighbor have more than...