Word: out-of-town
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...liberal member Frances Cooper were both preparing to visit the out-of-town candidates, he said...
Banks in the U.S. charged customers $145 million in fees last year for writing checks that bounced because of "uncollected funds." That is banking jargon for deposits that have not yet been credited to a customer's account during a holding period, as long as three weeks for out-of-town drafts, that the institutions have traditionally imposed as both a precaution against bad checks and a way to profit from the float. But the consumer frustration of waiting for a check to clear will be vastly reduced by new U.S. regulations that took effect last week. The law requires...
...perhaps there is cause for hope. Many people who buy take-out food on workdays take to the stove on special occasions. "I cook for out-of-town friends or when my boyfriend comes over," says Gerri Brownstein, 25, a New York advertising-sales representative. Brownstein may be remembering an observation made by Thomas Wolfe. "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves," he wrote in The Web and the Rock. Somehow, the act of reheating dinner seems a lot less appealing...
...City Council bogged down in an acrimonious debate over building code violations by an out-of-town developer, then voted to honor former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro and to cooperate with neighboring towns to shelter the homeless...
...former candidate said Heimert had invited her to have cocktails and dinner with Eliot students, but that an out-of-town commitment had forced her to decline. She said she hoped to schedule a meal with students later in the semester...