Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...journalism at the University of Georgia, cited estimates that 40% of the news comes from public relations specialists (who, at 150,000 strong, outnumber the country's 130,000 journalists). Still others try to hawk their stories for money, a trade-off that most respectable publications resist, although "checkbook journalism" is all too common these days...
...requirement. I actually laughed when I got about the lowest score on the math placement test in the class of '93. The registrar suggested cross-registration at Cambridge Rindge and Latin for remedial algebra, but I told her that I would never need to know more math than my checkbook required--and that meant never dealing with more than three digits...