Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case a customer, apparently using a fictitious name, opened an account at Chicago's Northern Trust Bank and later deposited a $4,000 check drawn on an out-of-state bank. The customer could not withdraw the funds immediately because Northern Trust, like most banks, puts a hold on such a deposit for several days to see if the check will be returned for lack of funds. When the culprit came back in nine days, the check had not been returned, so the bank allowed a $4,000 withdrawal to be made. In this case, though, the check...
...protests flared ominously early last week after the government failed to meet a $34 million payroll for 130,000 public employees. Each received a check that was initially uncashable, along with the right to pay a discount price for a bag containing rice, beans, salt and other basic foods meant to feed a family of five for a week. Outraged workers poured the salt on office steps and chanted anti-Noriega slogans. Firing tear gas and bird shot, riot police broke up demonstrations at the Education Ministry in Panama City and in the ports of Balboa and Cristobal...
...veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act, the primary provision of which suspends federal funds from any institution that discriminates. This act strengthens the government's commitment and ability to ensure equality for its citizens. It is a reassuring sign at a time when racial tension has grown without check, in such incidences of white on Black violence as the Howard Beach murder or the conflicts at UMass-Amherst...
There are other, less popular, but more exotic packages available, such as helping Uncle Sam check the spread of the Communist menace in Honduras--all expenses paid. But the vast array of choices with so little time to decide might make you want to simply crawl into your closet and sleep for a week...
...blank check to the bureaucrats and the litigators," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner...