Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to watch that game because I knew they would be tired, and they would need that extra person in order to stay in the game," she says, "I knew that Arkansas was an easier team [than Stanford], and it just felt so hard to let [my teammates] down in a way. But there's a place for everything, and I can't linger on that too much...
This season, as in Christmases and Hanukkahs past, shoppers have been turning to mail order catalogues and, increasingly, to the Internet for their holiday buying. It's a trend that will explode in the coming years...
Technically, consumers are liable for payment of sales taxes on all purchases, including items bought from out-of-state catalogues, but mail-order companies are required to collect sales taxes only in states where they have a physical presence--a warehouse, distribution center or store, for example. Consequently state and local governments lose up to $4 billion annually in sales taxes, according to the National Governors' Association...
...years, representatives of governors, mayors, state legislators and other locally elected officials have been meeting with mail order firms in an effort to work out the tax collection problem. Mail order companies had argued that collecting the taxes was too cumbersome and was an unfair burden on them with the more than 45 state and 6,000 different local taxing authorities with varying taxing structures and items they taxed...
...Near Eastern Languages and Civilizationsconcentrator from Tampa, Fla., Goldstein said sheplans to study Arabic and Hebrew literature toexamine "the borders between cultures and peoplein order to create understanding, especially inthe Middle East...