Word: collectivity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Judith B. Warren, director of finance and accounting for Harvard, says the University has made a concerted effort to collect the money it is owed in Massachusetts and elsewhere. She says the manager of accounts payable wrote every state treasurer in the country last year asking them if they had funds due Harvard, and received several positive responses...
...final call, which came at 7 p.m. the night before the story ran, was a collect call. Ryan had apparently run out of change. The reporter, whose managing editor once refused to accept a collect call of his because of the $10 service fee imposed per call by the University, accepted the call anyway. The president of The Crimson was heard to groan loudly from across the newsroom...
Under direct lending, universities would make the loans and finance them, and the Internal Revenue Service would collect them...
With its announcement this week, Microsoft seeks to extend Windows beyond desktop personal computers to telephones, copiers, printers and fax machines. Since these markets dwarf the PC business, the company stands to collect enormous revenues by licensing its software design to office-equipment vendors that will make the new machines that run the Microsoft At Work system. The combined sales of copiers, printers, telephones and fax machines, for instance, topped $60 billion last year, in contrast to $38 billion for PCs. Analysts project that Microsoft could generate at least $200 million in royalties from those licenses by the year...
First the school botches up applications, misses deadlines and stifles communication. Then Sallie Mae and her cohorts tie up payment processing with their impersonal computer system that miscalculates graduation dates. The government sells the Joans to Sallie Mae and then guarantees payment. All Sallie Mae does is collect the payments and interest...