Word: checking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know what to do about Thanksgiving fixings in Moscow, news-desk editor Waits May telexed her a recipe for cabbage dressing. And sometimes the news desk reaches out and nobody's there. May recalls reading an edited story to an exhausted ^ correspondent in Algiers late one night to check its accuracy. After a while he heard only a faint thump-thump on the line. He realized that the correspondent had fallen asleep, and the receiver was resting on her chest...
Eugene S. Kim '92, who chairs the social committee, said the council lost a chance to bid for a concert by the pop group Squeeze earlier this year because it did not have a "blank check." Squeeze accepted another offer before the council had a chance to meet...
...blank check strategy for negotiating concert appearances was used by last year's council to sponsor performances by reggae artist Jimmy Cliff and folk star Suzanne Vega. But many council members blame the strategy for the $20,000 the council lost on the poorly-attended Vega show...
Lepine purchased the rifle, a model that is popular with ranchers for killing coyotes, at a local gun store three weeks ago, after undergoing a police-file check as required by law. Canada regulates the sale of handguns much more strictly than does the U.S., but hunting guns, including semiautomatics, are widely obtainable. In the wake of last week's misogynic massacre, there were calls for tighter rules on the availability of combat- style weapons as well as soul-searching debates about the victimization of women. But the most touching commentary involved very few words. After a candlelight procession...
...cash are often exempt from the $10,000 rule, launderers have created front companies or collaborated with employees of such outlets as 7 Elevens and Computer-Land stores. To drug dealers, "an exempt rating is like gold," says a Wells Fargo Bank vice president. A restaurant that accepts no checks or credit cards can be an ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs in the knowledge that they are unlikely to attract scrutiny, since the Government is swamped with 7 million such reports a year, up from fewer than...