But there were also many dispiriting bits of avoidable sloppiness: a check dropped on the table before it was requested; canapés plunked down by junior servers who recited the ingredients in robotic voices and darted nervously away.
who invested $365,000, watched his monthly checks drop from $2,400 in June 2004 to $600 by December.
Mr. Herd said checks dropped into a mailbox put a person at more risk than electronic payments.
Support for background checks drops when guns are bought through informal channels, or gifts from family members — but the amendment that the Senate voted upon last week, sponsored by the Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, and Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, would have exempted most of these cases.
In late April, after the state's revenue estimate for the next fiscal year came in low, the Brownback administration and the state's legislative leaders crossed their fingers and hoped that there had been some unusually large checks dropped in the mail on April 15.
While the change at Morgan Stanley was detailed internally in November in a lengthy document that outlined the wealth unit's 2014 compensation structure, some advisers realized it was happening only after it was implemented and their pay checks dropped in recent weeks according to several advisers.
Check this drop-off, steeper than the Fed's quarterly reports had previously indicated showing the severity of the 2007-12 recession and the minimal recovery that has been meandering sluggishly.
A patron in a Bellion-equipped restaurant would seat himself, write his order on a check, and drop the check into a slot in the table.
If the integrity check fails, drop the packet.
