11.   Employees recall a larger-than-life woman who could swear like a sailor on the shop floor and uncannily collect debts from the hardest accounts.

12.   He said blacks in South Carolina are now making up for lost time and collecting old debts.

13.   He was accused, for instance, of sending a prizefighter named Tony to track down a man known as Fred the Macaroni Guy to collect a debt.

14.   Health care providers need to improve the documentation of claims, Brown said, and Medicare officials should make more aggressive efforts to collect debts owed to the government.

15.   Horn is sponsoring a bill, backed by the administration, that would expand the use of private contractors to collect government debts.

16.   Horn said the government must become more aggressive in its efforts to collect debts.

17.   In the future, the tax-collecting agency will also consider hiring contractors to help it process tax forms and to help it collect outstanding debts.

18.   It was not clear Tuesday why the union decided to move Monday to collect its debt by obtaining a judgment.

19.   Jones argued that Mrs. Caton had hired the man merely to collect a debt.

20.   Loan sharks collecting debts with autographed Bernie Williams baseball hats.