Word: collections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neared the drive, Carmack changed his mind and slowed up to collect it on one hop, when his feet came out from under him, allowing the ball to roll away to the right-field wall, scoring Elrod with the eventual winning...
Right now, of course, they still are in the "data gathering process" of slowly trying to collect data on Harvard's employees, culling information from computer records and from personal questionnaires...
...welfare check. Now in Michigan, you also have to pee in a cup. On Friday, four counties began mandatory drug testing for all new welfare recipients. The new tests, which are the first of their kind in the country, will be administered to everyone who comes in to collect their first public assistance check; random tests will also be given to current welfare recipients. Those who test positive will be required to get treatment, and those who refuse to take the test will be cut off welfare within four months. Opponents of the initiative, including various welfare-rights groups...
...profits, and want to know whether U.S. banks facilitated foreign theft. When the Republic National Bank sent an investigator out to an address in Queens that some of the Benex funds had been wired to, it found nothing there at all. "We have a company that exists only to collect dollars from Russia for transmission elsewhere," says an investigator. "Who the hell knows who's on the other end of the line...
...utter awe, I stood inside the concert auditorium for a good ten minutes after the show. I then proceeded to collect the silver confetti lying on the stage in front of me. In silence, teddy-bear in hand, I walked towards the T, trying to avoid a flood of tears. They came anyway. I--a Harvard student (a premed for that matter!)--am a teenybopper. An unashamed, ecstatic teenybopper...