Word: collectivity
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Surveyors—residents of Franklin Hill who were hired and trained last year—will collect health data from the families before and after improvements are made to housing conditions...
...cloud rolled over the indie comix horizon this past week when LPC Group, a retail bookstore distributor with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...
...whites of a victim's eyes? He died by suffocation. Find a seed follicle on a strand of the victim's hair? It was ripped out of her head. To unearth these nuggets, the writers and researchers go to forensics conventions, scour gory tomes like Practical Homicide Investigation and collect gadgetry catalogs for products like Clue Spray...
Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative—acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...
...thought he could make the BCC better. “When I became a leader,” he remembers, “I saw some things that needed improvement.” He decided to collect all of his thoughts in writing, and spent about 150 hours brainstorming, composing and revising an 11-page paper. Among the points he outlined was his observation that BCC leaders were “basically good salesmen.” He noted that the church always chose charming, eloquent and outgoing members to be leaders, rather than those who were firm and listened...