Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fran got blueprints. The bank still turned her down. Then ten other banks turned her down. Barrow, dark 24 hours a day in the winter, light 24 hours a day in the summer, treeless, ice-ridden Barrow, lusted for a Mexican restaurant, Fran claims. "So I just overdrew my checking account by $11,000, wrote a hot check, let a couple of big bills slide and opened Pepe's North of the Border...
...popular as Caspar Weinberger at Harvard. Though it varies from bar to bar, a teenager acquiring a drink without two birth certificates and his dad's passport needs a top-notch bullshitting ability to reach his desired goal. Bars have been especially tough recently after the alcohol commission checked up on several Square vendors and discovered-oh, my God!-rampant teenage consumption of alcohol. The currently hard-and-fast 20-over-only rule may be easing, however, as summer wears on. A few bars do not check IDs and the like...
...mustiness a must? Then the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.) in the Lampoon Castle is your haven. A crowded room upstairs full of classics, and a downstairs specializing mostly in older nonfiction can keep you for hours. Feeling adventurous? Then check out its room of unsorted paperbacks. But be prepared to stand or sit on the stone floor--very few (if any) stools or chairs here...
...Democratic. Or he may take the standard approach and pick an uncontentious male who would offer simple geographical and ideological counterweight. In any event, Mondale said last week, the choice is "the most important single act by a presidential candidate." He assigned a senior adviser, John R. Reilly, to check out possible running mates, a process that will probably last until the convention...
...Corporation has also eased away from scholarly matters: its early days it played a vigorous day-to-day role in the academic administration of the College, but today it only exerts a final check on all but the most extreme issues of teaching and research...