Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters insisted that Atlanta authorities had reneged on an agreement not to press charges of trespassing after the activists blocked access to an abortion clinic. Their sympathizers held new demonstrations, and more arrests followed. The Rev. Jerry Falwell flew to Atlanta to give a $10,000 check to Operation Rescue, the group that organized the protest. Falwell said he might return to get arrested; if he does, his identity should not be difficult to determine...
INEXPERIENCE in the young is forgiven in much the same way that past transgressions are often overlooked in the old. In a long life, the likelihood of making a misstatement, having a bad idea or suffering a lapse of judgement is high. If blemishes are discovered, we check to see if they have been corrected and, so long as there is a long list of counter-balancing accomplishments, we forgive...
...coroner's office may now require relatives to identify their loved ones from a photo collection of corpses, show a driver's license or other identification, and be fingerprinted. The coroner would then run a computer check of the corpse's identity. These cold-eyed procedures would apply to the real relatives of Jane Doe No. 70, if they ever surface. Her ashes have been returned to the coroner's office...
...Italian police last week began investigating rumors that the statue was taken from an illegal excavation in Sicily. Getty officials countered that they had attempted to check the same rumors last year -- to no avail. The case grew hotter when Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, claimed that the statue had been taken from the Sicily site to Geneva, then sold to the Getty by an English dealer. Museum officials called Hoving's allegations "purely speculative...
...haven't ever been to a concert at the Charles River Esplanade, check out Elainme Connolly and Joan Smith's tour of the Hatch Shell and the Community River Boathouse. Tickets are $6. Telephone...