Word: collection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote the proxies. Before shareholder activism kicked up, this posed few problems. But in the early '70s, as the number of resolutions rose, then-Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 continued to routinely throw out the proxy statements, or vote with management. The University had no way to collect information on resolutions and make responsible decisions...
Last week the Treasury Department made a long delayed move to collect some back dumping tariffs. It ordered 38 importers to pay more than $40 million in duties on color TV sets that were brought in to the country between six and eight years ago. The department was clearly acting under pressure. Ohio Democrat Charles Vanik, who heads a House subcommittee on trade, has called for hearings on the dumping issue. At the same time, federal grand juries in New York City, Norfolk, Va., and Los Angeles, as well as a Justice Department task force in Chicago, are hearing federal...
...track.) The failure of a hospital covered by the program to meet this goal would trigger a penalizing mechanism so convoluted that administrators claim it would be a bureaucratic nightmare-and they have a point. Basically, the formula would restrict the amount of money that a hospital could collect from patients. A hospital's revenues might be reduced by as much as 2%, a sharp decline for an institution that operates on narrow margins...
About the toughest penalty in the bill would apply to hospitals that began juggling their patient load so that they were taking in higher-paying patients at the expense of lower-paying, or began discriminating against the poor or the elderly. These hospitals would lose their eligibility to collect from Medicare and Medicaid...
...research is the conspicuous wariness of the investigators. The utterly elusive ingredients of the mood they are examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting for this month's Playboy that...