In addition, the Committee said the OFT had been slow to introduce postcode-matching software to improve its checking of credit licence holders.
Though it feels good in the short run, doing this is actually a way of checking out of your problems, rather than approaching them.
The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.
This gets done through the inherently flawed mechanism of merely checking the validity of the card that has been presented (or typed in).
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So, going forward, we need the power and voice of UGC news, as well as the curatorial tools and fact checking chops of working Journalists to help us filter signal from noise.
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At least, not without a ridiculous amount of manpower output checking the home of every single person in America.
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According to a 2008 study by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 9 percent of checking accounts incur 84 percent of overdraft fees.
When I got to the office, my face was scrutinized by my co-workers with the intensity of an appraiser checking the foundation of a 150-year-old house.
The Standard piece offers up some genuine examples of faulty fact-checking in service of its tendentious argument.
Two-thirds of online checking accounts were free of monthly maintenance fees, compared to just 34 percent of those offered by traditional banks.
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Dr Alexander, who is retired and suffers from Parkison's Disease, was accused of not checking the medical records of the inmates thoroughly enough.
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Now that we have entered an era, when each of us has the capacity to be a media company, the lack of fact checking and the amplification of echo chambers seems to be accelerating.
You could argue that Blekko has not 25 workers, but hundreds of dedicated amateurs who work for free, putting together lists of the best sites in their areas of expertise, and checking the work of others.
At around the same 24-hour mark, another method of calculation, by simply checking the number of ratings given to the game, came up with 433, 000.
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Employers have also been using the website as a way of checking out job applicants - creating a rash of stories about sober-looking job applicants being caught out by their own frolicking Facebook listings.
Last May, in a fit of bleary-eyed jet-lag, I made the mistake of checking into a hotel without running through the standard list of questions I normally ask at the front desk to ensure I get a good room.
Diehr, in which the Supreme Court upheld a patent for curing synthetic rubber that covered the process of checking temperatures and pressures and adjusting them according to a set of specified parameters.
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Instead of checking in to some wildly expensive spa for a few days of wired-up analysis by teams of kinesiology eggheads with space-age machines, how about doing a some deep data-mining using the soggy, smelly, salt-stained socks and shirt and shorts in your workout bag?
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Having found similar levels of the toxic waste outside the plant, the local government is checking the health of residents in the neighbourhood.
More importantly, when I succumb to the reflex of checking it every few minutes or seconds, I do so at the expense of thinking.
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In an era of interactive television cables, the growth of computer checking and check-out counters, of security systems and telephones, all lodged together in computers, it would be relatively easy at some point to give a profile of a person and tell what they buy in a store, what kind of food they like, what sort of television programs they watch.
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Simply a case of checking off inspection steps the way the FAA wants it done, as opposed to any evidence of actual dangers.
Despite a small shrinkage in the number of free checking accounts in the sample, this kind of deal is far from gone.
Mr Cameron encouraged the idea of nurses checking on patients every hour, as part of a package of nursing measures in January.
Consider that 25% to 40% of checking accounts at the big banks are money losers.
Next came kennel maintenance and the dismal task of checking dogs' stools to assess their health.
So, I'm sort of checking my e-mails off and on, just keeping an eye on Twitter.
Under the new pilot program, Bank of America introduced four types of checking account.
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One way of checking that is to look at GDP per capita for the country.
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Workers there are checking every piece of equipment to see which have embedded, data-dependent computer chips.
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