Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...service networks and discovering an ever enlarging cornucopia at their fingertips. Today anybody with a computer, a modem and a deep line of credit can buy an airline ticket to Cleveland, rent a Hertz car at the airport, book a room at the Sheraton, buy a novel from Waldenbooks, check the closing prices on Wall Street and purchase 100 shares of IBM--without ever getting up from the computer...
...belongs at an after- hours club on Easter Island. Jewelry resembles a collection of body ornaments from some lost tribe out of H. Rider Haggard--adornment for young natives swacked on pop culture who listen to Husker Du and go to art openings the way uptowners might check out the 8 o'clock movie...
...federal waiting period on all purchases of handguns. Such a provision would not prevent any "honest citizen" from defending himself and would not violate the rights of gun dealers. It would merely give an angry gun purchaser time to cool down and the government a chance to check the background of potential gun owners for mental illness and criminality...
...withdrawing from South Africa, American businesses would not only surrender their limited capacity to do good, but would deal a severe blow to South Africa's nonwhites. Those whom American firms directly employ will of course lose their jobs. More important, American disinvestment would check the growth of the South African economy. South Africa's nonwhites, half of whom are already underemployed or unemployed, would feel the brunt of economic stagnation most profoundly. Without a growth rate of at least five percent a year, Black unemployment will continue to rise, and with it the misery of the Black community...
Dallas--The NCAA men's basketball rules committee yesterday joined the NBA in adopting a three-point field goal and agreed to use instant replays to check scoring and timing errors, Rules Committee Director Dr. Edward S. Steitz said...