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.
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.
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.
The lower that two digit number is - like say 05 - the sooner your check gets cut.
The service reduces the number of repetitive questions that students ask professors, because they can check the site.
Users of the site will be able to "check on everything from care of the elderly to progress in reducing the number of teenage pregnancies", says BBC local government correspondent John Andrew.
"Philip Morris USA does not want kids to smoke cigarettes, " said spokesman David Sylvia, who noted the company has supported "a number of efforts" to reduce youth smoking, including training clerks to check the ages of customers and supporting youth development programs intended to improve decision-making.
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.
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.
As a check, he compared our ranking to a more common yardstick, the number of published patents (arguably an even cruder measure).
And if you're wondering exactly when you'll be getting your check, that depends on the last two digits of your social security 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.
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.
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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At the Minneapolis airport check-in kiosk, I entered my Sky Miles number to bring up my reservation.
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It will have a unique hologram, digital photo and serial number allowing parking attendants to check for genuine badges more easily through the windscreen.
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.
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.
It has a dozen check-cashing joints, a roughly equal number of hotels, and a gaming center called the Boomtown Casino.
Odd, I thought, that the toll-free number that had previously made it easy to order up a check had magically disappeared from my credit card statement.
And as to number fudging, there are ways to provide the public with an independent cross-check but there is no perfect predictor of the future.
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"Quite a number of people can't afford to get their medicines until the Social Security check comes in, so at the beginning of the month they turn up in abnormally large numbers and swamp the pharmacists, " Phillips said.
Of course, for everyone who must sign that painfully large and inconvenient check and send it off to Uncle Sam on the 15th day of April, the fact that the number of people paying nothing in federal taxes may be not quite so large as they may have thought is of small consolation.
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