31.   At gas stations, volunteers from the group busily filled gas tanks and collected money while locals furiously took pictures of the spectacle.

32.   At many theaters and orchestra houses, actors, dancers and musicians have collected money for disaster relief.

33.   At the dawn of his deal with the FBI, Whitey Bulger was an angry leg breaker at a Dedham restaurant looking to collect money from an unpaid loan.

34.   Because the stakes are so high, party officials said they were abandoning traditional niceties by taking sides in several primaries and helping to collect money for candidates.

35.   Because more money is collected than is paid in benefits, Social Security runs a substantial surplus.

36.   A bank representative would drop by the school to collect the money and give each of us a handwritten deposit slip.

37.   A group called Milwaukee Civic Pride has been set up to collect money in what surely ranks among the strangest fund-raisers ever.

38.   A student collected money for a protest march, wearing a hood over his face to hide his identity from security agents.

39.   A third senator, Republican Bob Smith of New Hampshire, has filed his presidential candidacy papers and has begun collecting money.

40.   According to insurance experts, U.S. owners occasionally sell vehicles to Central American criminals under the table, then report them as stolen to collect insurance money.