Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Club, Bertagna says. The Varsity Club acts as "a clearinghouse" for the Friends, sending letters, acknowledging contributions, and organizing functions for the athletes-turned-contributors. "It's not the most exciting position in the world," Bertagna says but it makes the Friends more than someone you "just write a check...
...Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what an excellent host Atlanta could be for the Democratic National Convention in 1988. Although the Democratic and Republican political conventions are still more than two years away, selection committees are already touring the nation to check out arenas and exhibition halls at potential sites. Bidding is highly competitive: the Democrats have sent a 25- page package of specifications to 20 cities with requirements that include 500 nights' worth of complimentary rooms at the headquarters hotel, as many as 150 cars and drivers during the convention...
March 22, 1975. A worker using a lighted candle to check for air leaks at Browns Ferry reactor near Decatur, Ala., touched off a fire that damaged electrical cables connected to safety systems and allowed the reactor's cooling water to drop to dangerous levels. No radioactive material escaped into the atmosphere...
...Both the printer and ETS have quality control standards," said a spokesman for Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J., which administers the SAT. "Somehow the error got through both. We're going to have to reevaluate the way we quality-check the tests. This never happened before--but once is all it takes," the spokesman said...
There are the makings of a play in the resentment between the housewife, who nurses the mother, and her sister, whose answer to everything is writing a check. But Bergman settles for stale attempts at satire about city dwellers vs. suburbanites, trendy vs. square relations, rich vs. poor ones. The actors struggle to give the play life, but there is only one moment of insight. As Thomas' ever irreverent husband, Silver says, "I'm flip, which is another way of being shy." Perhaps that is Bergman's problem, and it is surely the problem of a weary genre: plenty...