Education Secretary Michael Russell recently announced plans to check the number of schools ready to implement the new Curriculum for Excellence exams.
There are several investment fund companies for example that buy real time satellite photos so they can check the number of cars in retail parking lots.
But he did learn a valuable lesson: Double-check the serial number on the box.
Kaitlin urged me to check the card number with Netflix to see whether it traced to a bogus account with far too many cards to be a legitimate movie buff.
It aims to respond to every call within 24 hours, document the result and make it available to callers--including the 30% who don't give a name but can check a case number.
With the rapid rise in use of debit and credit card as a preferred mode of payment over cash and check, the number of transactions processed by Visa has grown steadily by 10% in the last couple of years, except 2008 when the economic downturn caused transaction volumes to drop by almost 11%.
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Back in 2002, Agrawal and two of his graduate students attained hero status by solving a math problem that folks had been working on since the ancient Greeks: How to tell for sure if a number is prime relatively quickly, without having to check all possible factors of the number.
Customers could buy Internet time on a card and check email on any number of computers, but most would play the slot machine-style games.
But Army General Tommy R Franks, who heads the US Central Command and enforces the southern no-fly zone, recommended reducing the number of patrols but maintaining a minimum number to check possible movements of Iraqi troops towards the Saudi and Kuwaiti borders.
Once you have decided to purchase a gun from a retail outlet -- it could be a local gun shop or national chain such as Bass Pro Shops, Cabelas or Walmart -- the store enters your name and information into the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, via a toll-free number or the Internet, to check the eligibility of the buyer.
Once the file is online, anyone will be able to download and print the gun in the privacy of their garage, legally or not, with no serial number, background check, or other regulatory hurdles.
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Check for signs of a small number of cancers and tell your doctor if you feel depressed.
At a number of stores, check-out staff will look out for likely candidates and encourage them to apply for jobs at Tesco's 780 UK shops.
The American State Department suggests that 100, 000 have already been killed, but some western agencies, struggling to check such claims, guess the number of almost certainly dead at around 10, 000.
It will have a unique hologram, digital photo and serial number allowing parking attendants to check for genuine badges more easily through the windscreen.
It has a dozen check-cashing joints, a roughly equal number of hotels, and a gaming center called the Boomtown Casino.
Democrats and the AFL-CIO are hoping that if they dump the unpopular secret ballot ban from card check, they can get to their magic number of 60 Senators.
Next, a business should ensure their online listings within mobile apps have a consistent and accurate name, address, phone number, so that consumers can check-in to the right place.
And I would say people should check out opportunity.gov which has a number of -- lots of information about how to get training when you're laid off, particularly if you're a blue-collar worker and you can't afford it.
The pilot will see about 20, 000 people in a number of areas across Scotland receive a check-up.
Rule Number 2 : The fact that the check is sent to the client, in her name, and at her address may not protect you!
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He expressed concern that the number of cremation referees - officials who check whether or not a cremation can go ahead - was decreasing when they played an important part in the certificaton of deaths.
At the Minneapolis airport check-in kiosk, I entered my Sky Miles number to bring up my reservation.
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One report from Harare said a disproportionate number of white people had turned out to check the list.
Recipients print a coupon with a bar code that includes the account number, and mail it in with a check.
In many appreciable ways, moving a data center to the cloud reduces the number of boxes CIOs and IT leaders need to check off their lists, but there are still issues to be aware of.
Owners of iMac system who think that they are affected can enter their serial number into a form on the Apple website to check to see if their system is part of the replacement program.
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The lower that two digit number is - like say 05 - the sooner your check gets cut.
In my case, after a long delayed check up, I came nose to scale with a very real large number.
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