Word: collections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brought home a "tragedy beyond comprehension." But your coverage left me wanting more--accounts of the doctors who left their practices at a moment's notice to provide aid, information on the search-and-rescue specialists called into action and an update on the Red Cross's efforts to collect money on the home front to support our neighbors to the East. We wealthy Americans can't even imagine what a loss of life and homes of this magnitude would feel like. We need you, TIME, to bridge the humanity gap that exits between affluent America and our less fortunate...
...trying to say to people that they'll collect on their dollar value," Hoxby says...
...today's university, rarely does a lecturer's style, or his charisma, motivate students to enroll in his class. Especially at Harvard, with our rigid Core Curriculum and concentration requirements, students oftentimes enroll in courses out of sheer necessity. They actually choose to attend the lectures only to collect the material that will allow them to pass...
...think the people who collect checks over at the Republican Party would be having a terrific summer. After all, the money is coming in like bats to a barn at daybreak. In the first half of the year, the party hauled in $29.4 million in "soft money"--unlimited contributions that are used for getting out the vote, putting "issue" ads on the air and covering other big expenses. That's about 45% more than the party raised in the same period four years ago. Isn't it time to pour the margaritas, toast the revving economy and give thanks...
...capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky and his colleagues will have little to do except wait ?- and collect more evidence. After getting the word out to be extra careful with new meteorite finds (previous discoveries have been tainted by suspicions that they had become contaminated by water from Earth's environment), Zolensky has had another hit on a rock that touched down in Morocco. "Lo and behold...