Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bears. No holiday season would be complete without a few cuddly creatures. Calliope (33 Brattle) sells three inch high antique bears, for just $3. If money is no object, check out their huge Paddington for $350. For those who are tired of intellectual dining hall conversation, there's always the $89 animated Teddy Ruxpin at FAO Schwarz (40 Newbury...
North Cambridge residents speaking at city-sponsored hearings recently succeeded in getting the city council to hire an independent consultant to check a controversial former chemical dump for toxicity...
...something extra last week: a thank-you note. Amex is contributing 3 cents from each bill to Citymeals-on-Wheels, a program that delivers food to the elderly and homebound. To encourage customers to contribute directly toward more charity meals, Amex provided postage-paid envelopes for donations using check or charge. During the month of November, the company expects to collect more than 1.6 million three-penny chit donations, enough for 10,000 meals-on- wheels, at the more than 3,500 New York City restaurants that accept its green, gold and platinum cards...
Minitel is not all digitized gossip. Farmers use it to track weather reports and commodity prices. Pharmacists order drugs, investors check stock portfolios, and real estate agents post listings. Collectors sell antique furniture, rare coins and secondhand fur coats. Jacques Toubon, leader of Premier Jacques Chirac's Rassemblement pour la Republique party, invited voters last August to pose questions to him via Minitel and drew thousands of responses...
...when she met Jeffrey. "I was introduced to so many things through him," she recalls, "like liquor and drugs and stuff." Today she lives with her mother in a suburb of Chicago and supports her two-year-old twins and an infant on a monthly welfare check. She no longer sees Jeffrey, an unemployed dropout. "I didn't love him," she says. "Why did I go with him?" she asks...