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The scheme would only work if it went along with a restriction on trawling imposed by the Scottish government, says Charles Millar, a conservationist who has collected backing from some deep-pocketed piscophiles.The same combination of private capital with environmentalists has already worked for some British salmon rivers, where the ancient rights of net fishermen have been bought out.

The Thunder have collected back-to-back wooden spoons and have not won a match since 23 December 2011, while the Sixers remain unbeaten against their western Sydney rivals.

At the market, the couple runs into new friends like Maren Kloppmann, a ceramicist whose work they had collected back in New York.

The Solitude club have collected back-to-back Irish League titles, thanks in no small measure to Boyce's strike partnership with Joe Gormley.

The amount of this settlement is said to be comparable to what the United States Department of Labor has collected in back wages annually through nationwide enforcement of wage and hour law during the last seven years (2014: $250 million2013 $240 million2012 $275 million2011 $225 million5 million; 2010 and 2009: $175 million).

It has collected $1.4 billion in back wages for workers, and gotten union officials to reimburse tens of millions of dollars in embezzled and misspent money.

Indeed, in the past several years, the IRS has collected billions in back taxes from wealthy taxpayers who used dicey tax shelters to manufacture huge phony losses in the late 1990s, 2000 and 2001.

The Internal Revenue Service said today it has collected $3.2 billion in back taxes, interest and penalties from 1,165 wealthy U.S. taxpayers who used the notorious Son of Boss tax shelter, and expects another $300 million in installment payments from them.

The IRS has collected billions in back taxes, interest and penalties from wealthy users of Son of Boss, which manipulated technical tax rules to create an inflated basis in a partnership, leading to artificial tax losses.

With $400,000 from the A.S.P.C.A., and a contribution from Mr. Nislick, the two men started NY-Class, a nonprofit organization that has collected more than 55,000 signatures backing city legislation that would carry out their plan.

The foundation has collected 2,500 signatures of support, won backing from local lawmakers who "invited" the government to keep the museum on the site, and found a nongovernment partner, the Media21 Global Journalism Network Geneva, willing to develop the site in tandem.