Word: collection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General's antidrug unit: "It is hard to blame a farmer who is growing corn and earning a few pesos for switching when he seen his neighbors working no harder to grow marijuana and earning lots of pesos. The traffickers come in, give them the seeds and then collect the crop...
Since February, says Evans, he has been trying to collect an overdue bill from the sheik for airplane fuel, parts and service totaling $188,464.81-pin money perhaps in Abu Dhabi but a substantial sum in Houston. This month, after learning that the sheik's plane was in Savannah, Ga., for routine repairs, Evans obtained a court order grounding the flying palace until the bill is settled. The United Arab Emirates have substantial leverage in Washington because they supply about 5% of U.S. petroleum imports, but their American lawyers stressed that the bill would not become a matter...
...womblike hospital world, they were led into work programs intended to help them re-enter society. But the jobs were so lowly (example: slipping rings onto drapery rods at 50? an hour) that they only underlined the crazies' alien status in the community. Many simply preferred to collect the special federal stipends available to them when they filled out forms that officially recognized their mental impairments -and further ostracized them. Says Estroff: "The system encourages people to get well, while at the same time showing them that the one way they can exist is to sell their craziness...
...Ranch campers. Nor does it need to provide the community fire and police protection that a town would require. Yet it reaps almost $2 million annually in property taxes and other income from the private preserve. The biggest winners may be the original developers, who stand to collect a windfall by selling ownership shares at a profit. Under California state law, a bank holds campers' antes in escrow until 60% of the allotted deeds have been sold. Then their deeds, like stocks, are theirs to keep, bestow, bequeath or barter-at the best possible price. The money, meanwhile, passes...
...closely parallels national price trends, a large number of goods and services have risen far more than 100% since 1967, while others have gone up much less. Only one item-long-distance phone calls-has declined. (In many cities, of course, the cost of person-to-person and collect calls has risen substantially...