Word: collections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawyers and self-styled adoption consultants -- many of them people who have successfully adopted -- encourage would-be parents to do their own legwork. Classified sections of newspapers are loaded with often highly personal ads detailing a couple's medical history and inviting pregnant women to call collect anytime. In her book Beating the Adoption Game, clinical psychologist Cynthia Martin offers tips: "Contact physical-education teachers, who frequently are the first to realize a young girl is pregnant; contact the school nurse to find out if anyone has morning sickness. Never talk to the principal, who may not want to know...
...only truly good tax, of course, is a tax on someone else. Failing that, the best taxes are simple, fair and easy to collect, and -- perhaps most important -- they discourage the right things. (When you tax something, you discourage...
Charles L. Smith Jr. '50 and Lois Smith donated the gift that established the collection, Wu added. "We feel we have a duty to collect and preserve these kind of primary materials as a witness to history for posterity," he said...
...candidates needed to collect 25 signatures by yesterday to be nominated. Next month house committees will hold a series of two elections to determine the eight winners...
...School spokesperson Steven R. Singer said the program was "phased-in," beginning with can and bottle collection last year. Since then, the K-School has placed large crimson bins next to copy machines and in hallways to collect white paper. An in-house food vendor also stopped using styrofoam products this summer after student petitions...