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...textbook recovery, it is usually the valiant consumer, checkbook and shopping bags in hand, who spends the way back to economic health, with industry dutifully tagging along behind. So it has been with the present post-recession recovery, at least until recently. In July, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales fell 1.2%, continuing a softening that began to appear in April. Industrial production rose by a scant .2% last month, the smallest increase in nine months. At the same time, the Consumer Price Index, the nation's principal barometer of inflation, rose .5% in July, which translates into...
...polished east are the scenes between Mr. Day (George Hamlin) and his wife Vinnie (Joanne Hamlin.) The little gestures--Clarence nervously moving his shoulders, Vinnie fluttering her hands with vulnerable grace--are the true vocabulary of this marriage. Their solo scenes revolving around Vinnie's inability to balance a checkbook and her husband's insistence on the male perogative will charm all but the most doctrinaire feminist...
...communications and community resources be mandatory for all high school students before they can receive their diplomas. In Missouri, one member of the state board of education has suggested that it would be nice if students could read a newspaper, calculate simple interest on a loan and balance a checkbook. If standards like those were applied nationwide, more than a few high school graduates might have to turn in their diplomas...
...little-we'd have a quick meal. The day's activities would vary. The women frequently were sent out to steal. If we were near a university, they would go into women's dorms and steal purses. If they managed to get an ID and a checkbook, they'd go out as fast as possible to kite the checks." Another technique was to comb birth records in city halls to find a child who had been born at about the same time as a cell member but who had died in infancy. The name and birth...
...ranch's 81-year-old blind owner, George Spahn, in the hope−futile, in the end−that she would inherit the property. Said Manson Follower Danny DeCarlo: "She had George in the palm of her hand. She cleaned for him, cooked for him, balanced his checkbook, made love with him." She was also in charge of selling the autos, dune buggies and other assorted loot stolen by Manson's disciples...