Word: collection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time, the Department of Education will have to collect data about biases and hate crimes on college campuses...
...likely to give more power to communists and nationalists. The ruble's collapse last summer, Moscow's struggles with its foreign debt and vast corruption have terrified investors and left average Russians convinced that capitalism is a con game fixed by criminals in high places. The government can't collect enough taxes to keep afloat, and has delayed economic reforms to preserve stability. Meanwhile, life is so miserable that life expectancy for men has dropped to 58 (from 65 years in the mid-'80s) and the country's population shrank by 400,000 last year. "Russia," says Paul Goble...
...called an Iconoscope. It also happens that Zworykin was by then connected with the Radio Corporation of America, whose chief, David Sarnoff, had no intention of paying royalties to Farnsworth for the right to manufacture television sets. "RCA doesn't pay royalties," he is alleged to have said, "we collect them...
...worked on Steve Bennett, a soft-spoken high school history teacher, until he'd had enough. Three years ago he co-founded SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) to get antisprawl initiatives on the ballot. It took just nine weeks last year for Bennett and his allies to collect the 75,000 signatures they needed. In November, large majorities in four of Ventura's five largest cities adopted rules that forbid the county to rezone land for development without voter approval. A fifth city came on board in January...
...Harvard Law School suffers from the lowest student satisfaction rate of any law school in the nation. To brighten its image, the school has hired McKinsey to determine its own real customer satisfaction rate. Four full-time consultants have been hired on a two-year fact-finding mission to collect "objective and systematic" data on why the Law School has failed its students of late. If you don't believe it, check out their office on the second floor of Hauser Hall...