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...charge made last week by Attorney General Edwin Meese was that Hutton had used a sophisticated method of check kiting to avoid high interest rates. Kiting is a procedure in which two or more checking accounts are played off against each other to stay one step ahead of a bounced check. After overdrawing an account at one bank, a person or institution pays the overdraft by writing another check, which overdraws an account on another bank. With some quick moves, it is possible to stay just ahead of the bankers and in effect obtain an interest-free, short-term loan...
...name. Each member of this ill-mannered, artistic bohemian brood had invited a personal guest to the house for the weekend to be wined, dined and seduced. When it becomes apparent that the family's guests will all be staying on the same weekend, the family devises a unique method of dealing with the overcrowding...
...this glitter enchants us with its boundless imagination. But it does not amount to more than the sum of its promising parts. The film suffers from a lack of cohesion, an enchanting madness in search of a method...
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE is a time-honored and effective method of protest. However, when protesters cross the line between peaceful demonstration and forcible coercion, even when the crossing is not pre-meditated, they only serve as a detriment to their cause-and to the rights of the entire community...
...started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum taught in part by the Socratic method. Adler's prescription for such sustained productivity: "I take almost no exercise, and I work harder every year than the year before...