Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...startled when the policeman taking his mug shot remarked dryly, "I suppose I'll see you again." The cameraman was joking, other officers explained. "I don't think he was," replied the grim-faced Secretary. After going through more than two hours of processing, including a computerized check of his fingerprints against those of known fugitives, Donovan was led by detectives to a New York State Supreme Court room jammed with reporters. Arraigned before a state judge, the Secretary had some unusual company: a convicted mobster newly charged with murder, a bookie accused of being an accomplice...
...Where will Charles Percy stand tomorrow? Only his pollster knows for sure." Percy's commercials tout "the Illinois advantage," alluding to his seniority, and attack Simon for sponsoring a symbolic bill in 1983 that would create a box on income tax returns for taxpayers to check if they do not want their payments to be used by the Pentagon...
...Dreams of a peace academy are almost as old as the nation. In 1793, Astronomer Benjamin Banneker bemoaned the four-year-old Constitution's failure to create an agency to check and balance the Department of War. Banneker's noble if somewhat woolly ambition lingered through two World Wars, Korea and Viet Nam: between 1 955 and 1968 alone, 85 different bills in support of a peace academy entered Congress, only to languish there. It was therefore somewhat of a surprise last week when after a long night of haggling over a $297 billion military authorization bill, members...
...time employees, who are all nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm at larger airlines. But every employee is a stockholder and works hard. A People Express customer-service manager is a Jack-(or Jill) of-all-trades whose duties include serving as check-in clerk and flight attendant, plus stints at tasks ranging from accounting to fuel management...
...course of learning to write a check, plant cotton and punish her son for smoking in school--all in the face of a world controlled by white males--Edna evolves from the once timid wife to a woman fully aware of the limitations and prejudices of her world. With the help of Moses, she struggles against and ultimately overcomes the veil of ignorance which her community uses to keep women and all minorities in their place...