Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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when HUD auditors did a spot check, they found one repairman catnapping and another washing his car. The price of such neglect is staggering. When the public housing program began in 1937, it was envisioned as a pay-as-you-go system...
...here," an Israeli soldier in Sidon told TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Harry Kelly. "I don't want to be killed here. It's crazy. They are crazy. We are crazy." New security precautions are in effect. Foot patrols supported by armored personnel carriers check ditches alongside main roads for bombs. Motorized patrols formerly conducted with open Jeeps are more often undertaken with APCs bristling with machine guns. Centurion tanks stripped of their turrets are used as mobile pillboxes. In many places, the concrete walls bordering citrus orchards have been knocked down to reduce the risk of ambush...
...Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...
...stemming of the population explosion or conservation of the environment, who among us really does anything about them on a day-to-day basis, excepting those occasions when an issue is "topical" enough to get us to read a book, go to a meeting, or send a small check to a tax-deductible nonprofit organization...
...month after Gefter agreed to the compromise, the copying bill is still unpaid-and council officers said they will not sign the check until they have looked into the matter further...