Word: checked
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While shit goes down in Princeton-Plainsboro, House is sitting back and having a conversation with his therapist with--voila!--a check for $25,000 made by correctly diagnosing his old team’s patient. Medical diagnosis seems to be the only reliever of House’s pain...
...recent generations - as the bloody conflicts of the 20th century proved. Thus sanctions, by and large, have become war by other means. The U.S. has applied such measures more than 100 times since World War I, against more than 75 countries. President Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed them as a check on Japanese imperialism in 1940, Ronald Reagan leveled them as a way to combat martial law in Poland, and a legion of leaders have used sanctions in recognition of the atrocities perpetuated in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Kim Jong Il's North Korea and Burma under the military junta...
...only thing that happens is a check mark in a box in a courthouse...
...while we're living history, we have the "privelage" to ignore spell check and spel howevr we wnt, damn...
...unwieldy that it seems always on the verge of implosion - like a bolshaya deryevna, or big village, riddled with ethnic fissures and political upheavals, always teetering between calm and chaos. Hence the appeal of the strongman - say, Josef Stalin. Someone to keep everyone else in check...