She took on tasks that went beyond her duty, but cemented her popularity with the soldiers by writing letters of condolence to relatives and setting up a banking system so soldiers could send money home.

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This would be a writing off of more bad debts, not the collapse of the financial system.

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Some pay-day lenders reportedly threaten to use the criminal justice system to prosecute delinquent borrowers for writing bad cheques, a crime that carries a jail sentence in many states.

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The book, available on the government court document system Pacer, was not a best seller but for Bodnar it beat writing letters home from prison.

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The exhibit makes its case by presenting a variety of innovations, including mass-produced goods and the first known system of writing.

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This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.

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From an Exchange facility front, before a share is traded it must go through a rule-writing process with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which lays out how the system works.

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The changes to the Welsh system follow a review which heard concerns about the quality of GCSE students' abilities at reading, writing and maths.

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Japan began to adapt the Chinese writing system for its own use around 1, 500 years ago, and it is still something of a mixed blessing.

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