Word: check
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...YEARS AGO my parents came up for a March weekend and I ran out of places to take them, so we all went to see the 134th Hasty Pudding Show I figured they would enjoy a little traditional Harvard color and it didn't occur to me to check any of the shows' past titles, like the one they picked in 1972. The Wrong way Inn Several minutes, and more than several anal compulsive jokes into the show. I was afraid to look to my left or right. But when I got home for spring break three weeks later...
...denying that the world is an increasingly dangerous place in which U.S. vigilance and sobriety is sorely called for to meet whatever military challenges may arise. But this shouldn't mean that the American public has to hand over a blank check to the Pentagon especially when it can't be sure that check is going to be cashed wisely. Many have claimed that the U.S. armed forces banks too much on overly complicated weapons systems that are prone to excessive cost overruns and might not work on the battle field the M-1 tank and the F-18 fighter...
Other suggestions included encouraging members to write bi-yearly letters to their constituents, making a report of each House delegation mandatory at its House Committee meetings, and encouraging members to take more roll call votes so students can check to see how their representatives voted on controversial issues...
...most sweeping proposal. The other candidates urge various combinations of defense-budget cuts; a delay in the indexing of income tax rates to inflation; postponement or cancellation of Reagan's third-year, 10% tax cut; surtaxes on high-income earners; and steps to close tax loopholes and to check the rise in medical costs...
...paying about a third of the "real cost" of being a student. These are the same people who are currently raising $350 million to help pad the ermine-lined vaults of Baybank Harvard Trust: you have to figure they're treating you fairly. So you send off the big check and arrive at Harvard, confident that you have forestalled the dreaded red dot for another semester, that you don't owe Harvard money, but rather, that Harvard owes you an education...