Word: checkbook
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...masterly stroke even for the software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal...
Despite the University's protestations, the naming of buildings is at its heart a money matter. If the Loebs had been faster on the draw with their checkbook, perhaps the polysyllabic "Pforzheimer" would have been passed over in favor of the simple and solid monosyllable "Loeb...
...bureaucrats who can't understand the daily struggles that American families face. That is why many people are willing to buy into a simple defense of the Balanced Budget Amendment. "If our families have to sit around the kitchen table at the end of every month and balance our checkbook and pay our bills, why shouldn't the U.S. Government do the same?" ask proponents...
...mature-adult coping mechanisms as staying in bed until physically dragged out (seventh grade, the year after teachers stopped making every-one send valentines to everyone else); assuaging my soul with depressing-music purchases, which I returned the next day when I came to my senses and balanced my checkbook (tenth grade); and, of course, wearing black (junior high to present, inclusive...
Sofia I. Echegaray '97 is one of the exceptions. "I'm so completely unorganized in every single way," she says. "I can't even balance getting up in the morning with changing my clothes, much less my checkbook...