But Binger sends a lot of such personal checks throughout her home state of Minnesota.

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Last October he launched SmartPay, which offers a new way to pay bills in China, where personal checks are nonexistent and credit cards rare.

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If you're constantly writing personal checks to bulk up your LLC's finances, a plaintiff can use the paper trail to show that the rental home wasn't really a separate investment.

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It held mail and statements, used personal contact information, helped with checks and wires that were hard to trace, and used other banks to help hide funds for U.S. clients.

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Colorado, a state with a strong frontier tradition of gun ownership, passed legislation last month that expanded background checks to apply to personal and online sales and limited magazine capacity to 15 bullets.

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But in the statement, it said the panel worked "within the adoption legislation which includes ensuring that statutory and personal references are undertaken, alongside criminal record bureau checks and medicals".

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The Transportation Security Administration has begun testing a new program allowing agents to select passengers to bypass standard security checks instead of an expedited line based on personal observations about passengers' behaviour.

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Personal connections may give comfort, but are no substitute for true institutional checks or true experience of a man's character, which many of Mr. Madoff's clients seemed not to have.

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Kelly Ayotte, who voted down background checks, was confronted by the new political reality up close and personal.

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Background checks delve deeper than you'd believe into the candidate's personal finances.

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