Word: check
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Clara Stern, wife of the distinguished trial lawyer Alejandro Stern, back her Seville into the garage, close the door and start the engine? Who was supposed to cash the $850,000 check she left with her banker before she took her life? How did this reticent Midwestern matron contract genital herpes? And what is the connection between her death and the Government's investigation of Maison Dixon, a commodity-futures firm owned by her brother-in-law Dixon Hartnell...
While spinning its tale at warp speed, Total Recall creates a coherent world that is part prophecy, part satire. On future Earth the unit of money is, of course, a "credit." Folks flick on the wall-screen TV to check out ESPN's coverage of the Toronto-Tokyo game, then perfect their tennis stroke with the help of a teacher on hologram. Johnnycab, the robot taxi driver, chirps irrelevant pleasantries until passengers want to throttle him. A married couple debate whether to move to Mars -- as if it were the suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps...
Perspective's finances were in such bad shape that in 1987 the group bounced a check to the University for the cost of a mailing to incoming students. It seemed as if Perspective was about to go the way of so many other upstarts...
Forty years later: A gold watch, a generous monthly retirement check, a healthy investment portfolio. Retirement should be good. It had better be, after spending your entire working life in a worthless job that could never fulfill...
...Amex plan is laudably efficient. Amex is already sending millions and millions of monthly bills and reply envelopes, already processing payments; millions of us are already having to pay those bills. Combining a savings deposit with the payment costs Amex next to nothing and saves us time, a check and a stamp...