Word: collecting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others were not so fortunate. Their frustration boiled into anger in the Marina district, where residents who tried to inspect their ruined houses were barred by police. After a shouting match with Mayor Art Agnos, a compromise allowed residents with escorts to enter their homes briefly to collect whatever they could before the buildings were torn down. "Our poor little lives are right here on the sidewalk," said Patrice Gehrke, loading a pickup with furniture and ferns. Diane Whitacre hoisted a drawing board on her shoulder so she could get on with her free-lance work. "The most important thing...
...place to find one of the nation's best cookbook stores, but Season has scored in the now fashionable neighborhood with butcher-block decor and tomes on food and drink, including esoteric offerings such as one on Transylvanian cuisine. Everyone seems hungry for the stock. "Some people collect cookbooks as art," says co-owner Barry Bluestein. "Some see them as sociological studies of what people were eating in different times and places, and some just ask, 'Is this a good read...
...Collect company literature and explore career possibilities before it is too late. There is a wealth of information available to help you with your career quest. Take advantage...
...Republican big shots like James Watt can collect $400,000 for a few phone calls to HUD, why shouldn't a member of the Republican Senatorial Inner Circle get a few thousand for lobbying top officials face to face? That may have been the reasoning of Larry R. Smith, a Harrisburg, Ill., free-lance writer who received an invitation from George Bush to join the circle and submitted a $1,000 membership...
Take the existing federal gasoline tax. Anyone can understand it. At a flat 9.1 cents per gal., it's easy to collect and reasonably fair, since the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them. It also discourages things we want to discourage: dependence on foreign oil, the trade deficit, pollution and traffic. As taxes go, this one's a winner...