Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this night, the Flyers came out storming in the first period playing clean, European-style hockey. And the fans wanted the Bruins to check hard, even when they were a man down. But the urgings of the crowd cost the Bruins. Once on a shorthanded stint, Steve Kasper tried to take the body--and missed. For the next moment. the Flyers were essentially up by two men, and Mark Howe and Scott Mellanby for an easy goal...
...students must prove to the Standing Committee that they have exhausted other avenues for their plan of study. Since many departments, such as History and Government, already have mechanisms which allow students to combine two fields in a joint concentration, the Standing Committee requires would-be special concentrators to check these options out first...
Such attitudes rile policymakers who are charged with slashing billions of dollars out of already hard-hit social programs. While no one proposes cutting off the truly needy, those lobbying for reform point out that thousands of millionaires receive a monthly check. Argues Horace Brock, president of Strategic Economic Decisions Inc. in Menlo Park, Calif.: "There may have been a social contract that what you put in you got back, but not six times what you put in." Unless the system is revamped, he warns, when the baby boomers reach retirement age, Social Security will be in jeopardy. Just...
...within families are just as likely, if not more likely to take place from old to young. "The traditional generosity of grandparents," says Author Lydia Bronte, formerly of the Carnegie Corporation, "now takes the form of helping with college tuition, down payment on a house, furniture -- not just a check every Christmas...
...available at the Olympic venues or in the athletes' Village. Kodak, the official film, won the right to operate the center that is processing the millions of rolls professional and amateur photographers shoot at the Games. IBM got to provide the computers that officials and athletes are using to check the schedule of events as well as the times and scores recorded. Visa is the Games' official credit card; ^ American Express, MasterCard and Diners Club cards are thus not being accepted at any Olympic ticket office or venue (though they find ready acceptance at Calgary hotels and restaurants). General Motors...