"In the middle of all this, they take a collection," he said.
These are people coming to you for help and you take a collection?
Loria plans to take a collection of Expos' personnel with him to Florida, including Manager Jeff Torborg.
In Ferguson, Jesse Jackson was warmly greeted, and then booed when he tried to take a collection for his organisation.
The Rev. Andrew Cosioleti, a visiting priest, took a collection for the victims of the fire and their families, and mentioned them several times.
Over the last two years, Bridget Dunlap, a former yoga instructor turned Houston bar impresario and owner, took a collection of broken-down homes, gutted them and turned them into cozy bars each with a distinct personality.
Let's hear from the constructors: Each year the folks in charge of the Merriam-Webster dictionary take a collection and a vote, and they admit a few new entries into the official lexicon.
"Once you take a collection device and you are marketing through a drugstore, it is very easy for me to say whether something would fall under our policy," he said.
To test if, say, boosting teachers' pay improved educational outcomes, an RCT would take a collection of comparable schools, randomly assign higher wages to some teachers but not others, and see what happens.
