Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students said while the new policy has forced fraternities and sororities to check i.d.'s, underage drinking on the whole does not seem to have significantly decreased...
Brady said she supported a plan to delay delivery of guns by seven days to allow authorities to check the purchaser's background and to discourage impulsive crime...
...skilled at fending off the men who want to buy her. "I may be little but I have a brain," she tells Kozol. He likes her. "She's alert and funny and . . . I enjoy her skipping moods," he writes. One day he learns that after her mother's welfare check failed to arrive, Angie was caught stealing food from the supermarket and was brought home in handcuffs. "When I came to this hotel I still believed in God," the mother tells Kozol. "I said: 'Maybe God can help us to survive.' I lost my faith. My hopes. And everything...
...meant it in a sarcastic way. They are there to check students, they are not students of higher education. If [people] took offense, I'm sorry." --Quicy House Master Michael Shinagel, explaining his comment at a private gathering that the house had restrictive interhouse dining policies because the dining hall workers" can't do higher order math." (10/30/87...
...Fact check. On the road, Pat Robertson tells the story of children at a Virginia public school who were forbidden to bring Christmas cookies to class because their liberal teachers said that would violate the Constitution. This is one of a host of secular humanist horror stories Robertson loves to tell, with little or no substantiation. When asked for details, Robertson dismisses those seeking to check the facts as being "too literal...