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Collections agency typically are given a year or more to collect on any account before it is sent on to another agency by the creditor. Some creditors use individual agencies exclusively and do not continue to forward accounts. By federal law, activity to secure paymant against a debt may continue for seven years from the date of last payment. In the event the debt has not been paid in full, the creditor may seek judgment against the debtor. In this event, judgment extends the time to ten years from the date of the judgment. If the creditor is unable to satisfy the judgment in ten years, they may petition the court for an additional ten years. Effectively, debt collections activity, if planned right can extend for twenty-seven years.

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Every state has its own Statute of Limitations.

For example, a written contract can have a Statute of Limitations of 3-15 years, depending on the state.

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• Here's a toughie...Firstly, i think it depends on the person. If a person is old enough, it may occur as black and white. Otherwise though, I'm pretty sure it's mostly color dreams.
• People dream in color, even when they think that they dream in black and white... if you ask them what color something was, they will know.
• No, I don't dream in color and I am normal - as normal as possible.
• Same for me. Sometimes I dream in color, but very often, I have a dream or two in black & white or sepia. And I'm still in middle school, so I don't think you'd consider me "old!"
• Everyone dreams in color. The thought that we don't dream in color is the result of misinterpretation of very old research. Think about it: We see in color. In fact, we have six senses at our disposal during the waking day. There's no reason we wouldn't have access to those senses during sleep as well, particularly since many scientists believe dreaming is a natural way to recall events and emotions from our waking hours and play out solutions as a means of catharisis.
• I should add that some people dream much more vividly than others. Those who don't recall dreams at all or very well may be lead to believe they don't dream in color.
• Humans actually have five senses. Some have fewer -- for example, blind people only have four. People who are blind due to the failure of brain regions devoted to vision do not dream in vision at all. Their brain is unable to create or process visual images. Thus, congenital blind people are indeed unable to dream in color, or in vision at all. It should also be noted that this kind of dream research can only be based on reports from individual.. even if some people do say that they dream in black-and-white, we may never know if that's true, or if they just are unable to remember their dreams vividly enough.
• No. I dream in color and in black and white. My step father only dreams in black and white and my mother only dreams in color.
• No one would probably have dreamt of this question if we never had colour tv. As it is, I seriously doubt that anyone who isn't colour blind or has some similar visual disorder, dreams in black and white.
• This answer really depnds on the person and the circumstanses. Everybody has different ways of dreaming, so many people would have their dreams set in different times (eg. daytime or night time). This may effect the colour they see. Obviously dreams which are set in the night time will be drained of much colour and may be interpreted as 'black & white' dreams. From my experience, dreams of which are set during the night time tend to be black and white as that is all I can make out of colour in the dark.
• i always dream in color or the dreams i remember are always in color.
• I read a book about dreams. It's called: Book of Dreams By Sylvia Browne. The color dream is a prophetic dream. Prophetic dreams are always in color! They tell the future. But they only give you hints!
• Who knows if you dream in color or not? When you remember the dream, you are more likely to remember it in color, since your daylight vision is in color. If you claim to dream in black and white, the chances are you just dreamt a dark dream.
• Mostly dreams occur in different colours it need not be black and white only sometimes people dream in single colour like red,blue and green but it depends on how the person want to see the brain doesn't rest at all that is why dreams occur so as we think inturn the brain thinks and manipulates and gives it in the form of dreamz...
• I am color blind, my brother is blind, we both dream in color.

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ANS 2 - John Lennon Liverpool Airport. ( Famous singer)

George Best, Belfast (famous soccer player)

O'Hare, Chicago. ( US Navy first 'ace' pilot of WW2)

Leonardo Da Vinci, Rome. (inventor par excellence)

Charles De Gaulle, Paris. (French Prime Minister)

General Mitchell, Milwaukee. (Famous Airman )

D F Malan, Capetown RSA. (famous soldier)

Wiley Post- Will Rogers Memorial Airport, Alaska. (Famous pilot & entertainer)

Abraham Lincoln airport, Springfield, Illinois.

Bob Hope Airport, Cal. (famous entertainer, esp of US troops overseas)

Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma. (famous entertainer)

JFK International, New York.

Gerald R Ford International, Mich.

George Bush Airport, Texas

Ronald Regan International, Virginia.

Dulles International, Washington DC.

Louis Armstrong International, New Orleans. (famous musician)

Rick Husband International, Amarillo, Texas (Astronaut from there )

Arnold Palmer Airport, Penn. (famous golfer)

King Khalid International, Saudi Arabia. - - -

- - - Well, that's most of what comes to mind immediately -I believe that's about 20 and I could go on to at least 35, but that'll do for now !

In their budget report (see link below) it states that they spent $82,334,281 for Parole and Probation. Subtracting that from the total above leaves $959,551,884 on managing the inmate population. That covers everything from building costs to meals and medical expenses. The average per inmate is then $24,888 annual.

This quick calculation compares well with the department's own assertion that their average cost per bed is $24,332.

Investigating further (because this IS a loaded question), if we assume an annual rate of inflation of 3.5%, an inmate's lifetime cost to the taxpayers can be estimated based on how long he lives behind bars. Here are the numbers:

20 yrs = $0.7 million

30 yrs = $1.3 million

40 yrs = $2.1 million

50 yrs = $3.3 million

60 yrs = $4.9 million

Death penalty opponents often make the claim that life in prison is a cheaper way to go than a death penalty. They may be right for most cases, but it's a much closer call than they often state. There are many factors involved, but the biggest by far is the additional court costs for capital murder cases where the death penalty is sought.

An independent study (see link below) was released for the state of Marlyand in March 2008 analyzing the additional money spent prosecuting a death penalty case vs. the average non-death penalty case. The study looked at all cases between 1979 and 2008 and I assume they adjusted costs for inflation to 2008 dollars. The report showed that $107 million was spent on 56 cases that resulted in a death sentence. And $71 million was spent on 106 cases that did not.

There are two ways of looking at these numbers. You could say that the death penalty costs $1.1 million per case, or that it costs $1.9 million per conviction. Either way it's fair to say that additional court costs alone are equivalent to somewhere between 30 and 40 years in prison.

I think it's fair to say that there is no real savings to the taxpayer for a death penalty, but the costs are similar to life in prison, not 3-5 times higher as some have stated.

CORRECTION: I don't know who posted this but it's wrong. The figures from that study are for Total Lifetime Cost of a death sentence process. $1.1 million figure was for trials that did NOT seek the death penalty and covers the cost of putting someone in jail for a life sentence AND the cost to put then through court. The $1.9 million is the cost for a case where the death sentence was sought unsuccessfully, so the cost is again for trial and life sentence. A figure that was left out of this answer is the $3 million it costs for a case where the death sentence is successful, which covers the cost of the trial, appeals, imprisonment and eventual execution. So, the Maryland study DOES show that the cost of the death penalty is 3 times higher than a life sentence case. Here is the link to the report, all these facts are summarized in the Abstract.