Word: check
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Banks in the U.S. charged customers $145 million in fees last year for writing checks that bounced because of "uncollected funds." That is banking jargon for deposits that have not yet been credited to a customer's account during a holding period, as long as three weeks for out-of-town drafts, that the institutions have traditionally imposed as both a precaution against bad checks and a way to profit from the float. But the consumer frustration of waiting for a check to clear will be vastly reduced by new U.S. regulations that took effect last week. The law requires...
...everyone is delighted by the reform. For grocers, who cash 3.5 billion checks a year, it will require some irksome adjustments. Reason: the regulations impose new, standardized endorsement procedures to help speed up the process of moving checks to their appropriate banks. For example, endorsements must be confined to the top 1 1/2-in. portion on the back of the check. Many supermarket managers will have to buy new equipment to stamp precise endorsements on the checks and train their staff how to use the new system...
...dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts insect legs when trapped in Freddy's Roach Motel: "You can check in, but you can't check...
...once tried pot as an experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check in to the Betty Ford Clinic...
...California- based company called NutriClean has sent grocers scrambling to get an independent stamp of approval for their produce. Founded four years ago by Chemist Stanley Rhodes, the twelve-employee firm serves growers and grocers alike, sampling produce in the field and on supermarket loading docks. The NutriClean tests check for several pesticides that are not routinely screened by the Food and Drug Administration. Says Frank McMinn, vice president of advertising for Raley's, a 53-store Sacramento-based supermarket chain that was one of the first to tout its NutriClean testing: "We've never had an ad campaign...