Word: collection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year about $2 billion in merchandise and food was hijacked from trucks or stolen from warehouses. The rest is distress merchandise that has not moved on the store shelves and is dumped at large discounts to middlemen, who field it out to street hawkers. City governments are trying to collect sales taxes from the vendors, but the vast majority pay nothing...
...same decentralization that keeps most offices in the black, and leaves few officials with overwhelming areas of responsibility, makes it almost impossible for students--especially freshmen--to know where to go when they have complaints or questions. The absence of any full-fledged, respected student government that can both collect student opinions and send them into the right office so that they can't be ignored only makes things worse...
Agriculture is in even worse shape than the mining industry. In southern Zambia, farming has been disrupted by guerrilla warfare. In the Gwembe Valley, crops are rotting in local cooperative stores because nobody wants to collect them. Most of the preindependence white farmers have left Zambia, and agricultural output has dropped accordingly. Zambia's farmers no longer grow tobacco, once a flourishing crop, nor do they produce as much corn as the country needs...
...used by the Observer and libel suits from the county prosecutor and other targets of Yant's reporting, the paper was forced to close. Creditors were beating on Yant's door, and one disgruntled employe even filed charges claiming that Yant assaulted him when he tried to collect $114 in back...
Financing all the Administration's ambitious goals hinges crucially on how much further world oil prices will rise, and how much windfall tax revenue the Government thus will collect. Carter has called for a tax of approximately 50? on every extra $1 that the energy companies collect as U.S. oil prices climb to world levels. The House has raised this to 60?, but what the Senate will do is uncertain. Thrashing out a compromise could take months, given Washington's temptation to use the oil industry as a scapegoat for the nation's energy woes...