Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national media gathers at a press conference at Oral Robert's palatial estate to witness the final money exchange. Oral publicly accepts the certified check and thanks his savior. He then leaves the conference with the cheek to "deliver the goods." In a few minutes Oral returns with a smile on his face...
...have little effect on the Communists' public support. Local Congress Party officials were widely regarded as political hacks, while the Marxist candidates could point to ten years of relatively good government under their rule. The Communists have distributed tracts of farmland to landless peasants and kept government corruption in check. The party, which broke with Moscow in 1964, is hardly doctrinaire. Chief Minister Basu, for example, is coaxing multinational companies to invest in West Bengal...
...nation's belief in his incorruptibility: after hours at major U.S. embassies, he and a Marine buddy go through the empty building securing classified documents that may have been left out, locking safes and disposing of the "trash," often top-secret papers, in the diplomatic "burn bag." They also check on each other. In the 38 years since the U.S. began posting Marines to guard duty, the system had seemed infallible...
Remar's book Body Worry (you didn't think there was a book in this?) has just been shipped by Viking to bookstores at $17.95 a copy, so I convinced my editors that we should check out this ego trek at the scene of his make-over haven in Freeport. (By the way, Mom, how's the weather back home?) "Let's have dinner," said Remar when we spoke on the phone. "But how about a bike ride first?" I blanched but dutifully headed over to his modest three- bedroom house. Initial impression: Georgia gentleman, soft-spoken, slight drawl, impeccable...
...have mostly single rooms have set aside special office space for executives. A major part of the $1 billion renovation now / under way at the Hilton chain is the creation of business centers in most of its hotels. There, guests can use computer terminals, pick up business publications and check stock quotes on the Dow Jones financial wire. The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles offers quick typing, photocopying and telex services and the use of a reference library at its business center...