But even then, getting a collect call from anywhere civilized was quaint (and ironically, uneconomical).
Under current law, a state collect sales tax from companies that have a physical presence in the state, which hits brick-and-mortar retailers but not Internet retailers that ship to customers with the state.
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So, the sales tax collection standard that has held since 1992 is that a state may only make a seller collect sales tax if the seller has a physical presence in the state.
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Shifting constantly, the mighty mountains of sand are born when a few grains collect around a nest of grass.
You can pay yourself a fantastic salary or collect a pile of dividends.
Curiosity drilled a hole in Mars to collect a sample of its surface, which is the first time any rover has drilled such a hole on the Red Planet.
For a client to actually collect on a fiduciary breach requires expensive legal action.
If enough symptoms match the operator's list, they're given an online voucher so a "flu friend" can collect a course of Tamiflu.
Where it used to take half a day to get documents certified by the ward office, she can now phone in a request and collect the papers at a convenient time.
But a Toll Collect spokesman rules out the idea.
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She said if was "imperative" the resident received his mail earlier, he had the option of setting up a mail collect service, allowing customers to "collect their own mail" free of charge.
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Instead, it's about moving one very green, goofy sounding pig to various points on a map to collect items and reach a goal -- it's much more Cut the Rope than Angry Birds.
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Three minutes later Villa raced through a static dark blue defence to collect a visionary chip by the elegant Xabi Alonso but uncharacteristically failed to control the ball with only the keeper to beat.
Those inquires prompted GrubHub to make a big switch in 2006 from a subscription model, where we charged restaurants for premium placement, to a transactional model, where we collect a commission for each order placed.
In those cases, black claimants' simple assertion that they had attempted to farm or had applied unsuccessfully for a farm loan was sometimes sufficient to collect a large payout.
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If you happen to own your primary residence, a fat portfolio of stocks and bonds, a year's supply of cash and maybe a yacht and a dancing horse, then why not collect a few bargain bungalows too?
In 1999 NASA launched a mission to collect and bring back samples from a comet.
The chance to have a "real acquisitions policy, not just collect a few pieces by an artist, " however, was a captivating aspect of the MoMA job.
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For instance, did you know you could take a humble corporate bond yielding 7%, collect a yield of 10% and cash out with a 73% gain?
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Burnley appeared buoyed by their goal and Little fired in a shot through a crowded area after Tony Warner failed to collect a cross, but it was somehow kept out.
While Mr. Bezos expressed a willingness to collect sales tax where Amazon has a physical presence, the company recently pulled plans to open distribution centers in South Carolina when it was unable to get legislation passed that would exempt it from doing so.
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Rather than a failure to collect or share intelligence, this was a failure to connect and understand the intelligence that we already had.
Rental agents are motivated to sell you a house rather than rent you one so as to collect a higher fee.
Thinfilm has been working on low-cost sensor tags containing rewritable memory that can be placed on anything from a bunch of bananas to a bottle of perishable pills and that can collect a bevy of information, including the environmental conditions the fruit and drugs have passed through to how long it took them to get from the factory to a distribution outlet.
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There have been a couple of tests of different ways that the government could collect a VMT.
By making Iron Man 3 as a U.S.-China coproduction, Disney would collect a 38% cut of the box office as befits a domestic film.
When they make a mistake, they collect more money for a second operation to repair the damage done in the first one.
Land on a one-in-a-thousand hit like Music Man, and you stand to collect a long string of royalty checks from revivals and road shows.
O'Donovan also had a header comfortably saved by the Italian and the pair clashed again soon after when Cudicini reacted furiously after O'Donovan flicked out a leg and connected with the keeper as he slid in to collect a through-ball.
As credit-card operators they collect a fee on every transaction, whereas the issuing banks are left to collect interest or worry about bad debts.
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