Word: collection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to turn on a television set or radio without hearing Joe Garagiola, the baseball catcher turned pitchman, importuning customers to come in and collect $400 price rebates on all Chrysler models except for the most popular small cars like the Omni and Horizon. The company's advertising agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, and some 25 other suppliers and service agents are giving additional rebates of $100 to $500 to any of their employees who buy Chryslers. In addition, Chrysler since May has been granting its dealers special discounts that now range from $325 to $1,500 per auto. These cuts...
Some less charitable owners are leaving their cars in high-crime neighborhoods in hopes that the gas hogs will be stolen, so that they can collect insurance for them. In Boston, car thefts for the first three months of this year were up 44% over the same period last year. In New York City, police estimate that one-third of all auto thefts involve insurance fraud. At the same time, police believe that owners of fuel-efficient cars should take extra precautions against thieves. Said New York City Detective Philip Crepeau: "Like anybody else, the thieves go where the market...
...listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel. (Twelve readers responded; so far none have signed up.) Is the ad ethical? Says California State Bar President David Levy: "The line between advertising and solicitation is pretty fine. They're pretty clever...
...employees who earn more than $20 a month in tips are supposed to report their gratuities to their employers, who then are required to withhold an appropriate amount for taxes Furthermore, the employee is responsible for keeping accurate tip records. Otherwise, the IRS can estimate tip income and collect taxes...
Cutting across 125th Street for the de rigueur sight of Harlem, the elderly, enthusiastic bus guide warns them mysteriously not to take pictures from the window. "Is Harlem better or worse than you expected?" he asks. "Better!" Later the visitors disperse to collect impressions of Manhattan on their own. Marc Horber, a kitchenware manufacturers' representative from Nancy, and his son Eric, 17, walk through Chinatown and Little Italy. Father finds the city "a grand has-been," but to his son, "It is very different from France, everyone living in his own territory, very dirty, but full of life...