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...pots and pans, uprooted 2,037 trees and took 3,150 logs to help transport their cannons across the snow-covered Great St. Bernard Pass. Napoleon sent an IOU promising, "I will reimburse everything." Since then the citizens of Bourg St. Pierre have been trying in vain to collect the 30,254 gold francs they say they are owed. When President François Mitterrand visited Switzerland last year, they politely reminded him of the outstanding debt. They did not ask for a specific sum, however, because with compound interest the amount would have reached tens of millions of dollars...
...them. Before the campaign is over, each consumer in Alameda will be reached four times by mail or phone by Sprint promoting its discounts. There are promises of fee cuts and refunds if users are not satisfied. A T & T plays up services that its rivals cannot match. Examples: collect and person-to-person calls and automatic credit for misdialing...
...Boston's wealthiest merchants, gave generously to his alma mater and the Corporation rewarded him by naming him treasurer. But Hancock had little taste for the job and spent most of his time travelling on business or political missions, neglecting the University's finances. He failed to collect term bills or pay debts and complicated matters by carrying the University's financial records with him on his travels...
...collect fodder for his programs. Koppel says that he reads five to six newspapers a day, employs two research assistants and helps his producers plan each show. Even so, problems occur. Lord, the former executive producer, recalls a show that examined the abortion issue. "I cued him that we had thirty seconds left and Ted said to his guest. 'Well, we're going to have to abort this interview...
...aside my prepared remarks and in my mind, began to collect the salient points, the Yard turned over for freshman use in 1930, the presence of women since 1972. etc. Without waiting for a reply, however, the alumnus went to the heart os his concern. Was it still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift...