Word: checkbook
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...happens, I've always taken great pride in keeping my checkbook reconciled with my bank statement. I must have once heard my father refer to someone who was so financially inept that he "couldn't keep his checkbook balanced," and I've endeavored not to fall beneath even that modest standard. But this requires working on the outer edges of my financial and mathematical competence, and it would take less than the destruction of a few checks to throw everything out of kilter...
...next deal may be coming soon. Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley managed to build international investment banking operations on their own; others may have to get out their checkbook, like Credit Suisse and UBS, if they want to catch up. Most likely to get swallowed: independent securities firms such as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and J.P. Morgan. And at today's prices - Credit Suisse paid $90 for DLF shares that were going for $65 on Monday - that makes them must-swallows for investors...
...Alliance, a group of six unions in Detroit still striking against the Times, issued a press release last week opposing Giles's candidacy that accuses Harvard of being tempted by the "infamous checkbook of Gannett." Gannett owns papers across the country, including USA Today...
Corzine has yet to master public speaking or the nuances of public policy, but he has emerged as more than a human checkbook. A mix of Mister Rogers and Warren Buffett, he talks softly and lives simply in a plain house in Summit. He earned his money the old-fashioned, pre-dotcom way, as one of the most successful, nerves-of-steel bond traders in Wall Street history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and a former Marine, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's business school and up the ladder at Goldman...
...Garcia is a payroll coordinator at the Sheraton New York, one of midtown Manhattan's largest hotels. Assigned to the food-and-beverage department, she helps compute wages, overtime payments and other payroll items for the department's 800 employees. And she balances the department's checkbook...