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Cambridge's new conditional legalization group, the CCMC, which formed in August, just jumped into the fracy this month, getting at the issue through the legislative branch. CCMC members have begun by canvasing the city, collecting signatures on a petition in support of Senate Bill 1582, the State Medical Marijuana Bill. Organizers say they hope to collect 5000 signatures, which they will present to state Speaker of the House Charles F. Flaherty (D-Cambridge) to persuade him to support their cause...
Sure, these proctors try to make themselves useful. They hand out extra blue books and will fetch you a pencil. They tell you when to put your pencils down. They pass out the blank exams and collect the blue books we have filled with wisdom...
...then opens a letter of credit -- a form of financing only a bank can do -- in favor of the seller or the seller's agent and arranges to ship the parts. Because B.C.C.I. is a large bank, it can afford to pay off the seller immediately, then turn and collect a vastly larger sum from Iran...
...trust leaders such as Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who controls 77% of B.C.C.I., to stand behind their debts and those of their subjects. And they see no need to keep records for the taxman, since the six Arab states in the gulf collect no taxes...
...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...