Word: collection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frances P. Holland, chief of the Sales Excise Bureau, said yesterday until an August 1975 ruling by the Revenue Commission that specifically included colleges in the tax, some colleges payed no meal taxes. "We simply didn't always have the staff to collect from them," he said...
Plimpton told the assembled seniors, who were sipping white wine and liqueur, to pledge an "extraordinary gift" of a billion dollars--"there's no way for them to collect...
...goal of the drive is to collect two articles of clothing from every student, he said. "We've already collected 400 pounds of suppies, he added...
ANOTHER DISTURBING implication of the report is that in order to make "a fair and reasonable evaluation" the ACSR will need to collect data for several years before taking any action. Harvard should quit stalling. The evidence the ACSR did succeed in gathering is clear. The blacks who work for these corporations are clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, and are destined to stay there as long as blacks in South Africa are denied basic political and economic rights. Even if the corporations adopted and enforced equitable labor practices, the corporations would still, by their very presence...
...practice, begun by Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in May 1965 of borrowing short-term notes, payable within one year, to fill budget deficits. As if that was not bad enough, Wagner's collateral for the loans was Bond Anticipation Notes (statements of what the mayor expected to collect in taxes) based on the mayor's own estimate of the next year's revenues, rather than on last year's revenues. The effect of this practice, continued under subsequent administrations, allowed mayors to anticipate much more revenue than they knew the city would receive, so they could keep borrowing. Predictably...