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...Mental Health. “If you had a dreadful physical illness and you were exhausted and couldn’t get out of bed, you would take time off. If you had an episode of mania, it might be really a good thing to take time off, re-collect yourself...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Troubled Students Feel College Nudges Them Off Campus | 1/23/2004 | See Source »

...rent control Campaign for Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection successfully challenges the validity of the signatures, any referendum would be delayed at least a year, as the anti-rent control Homeowners Coalition would be forced to re-collect signatures...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Rent Control Referendum Faces ROAD BLOCKS | 7/12/1994 | See Source »

...fact, a chief criticism of lotteries is that they prey on the hopes, and wallets, of the poor. "I always felt that it was an insidious way to re-collect our welfare dollars," says Republican State Representative Tony Van Vliet of Oregon. Lottery enthusiasts, however, contend that different games attract different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on a Way to Trim Taxes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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