Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity. "If Donald was married to a lady who didn't work and make certain contributions," Ivana says, "he would be gone." And as an afterthought: "Show...
...nonprofit outfit. Much of his time is spent visiting local Habitat affiliates and proselytizing. Once or twice a year he takes hammer in hand and helps finish off a Habitat home with the volunteers. Full-time helpers in Americus, Ga., are paid only their lodging and a weekly "pig check" -- a $25 certificate redeemable at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...
...problem: although many large creditors like utilities have computerized accounts that allow their bills to be settled electronically, most small businesses do not. So when a home-banking user hits a button to pay, say, a doctor's bill, someone at the bank often has to print out a check, stuff it in an envelope and put it in the mail...
...about 30% better than ordinary students in absorbing concepts and learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...
...McCulloughs' case, this is almost literally true. Walls and walls of their house are nothing but glass, and readers who expect something to shatter will not be disappointed. But the source and degree of the destruction are entirely unanticipated. Glynnis finds a canceled check for $1,000 that Ian had made out to Sigrid Hunt, a willowy young woman whom Glynnis had once taken up socially and then dropped. Ian's explanation happens to be factual: Sigrid had phoned him in distress and in need of an abortion. Assuming she was Glynnis' | friend, Ian had offered what comfort he could...