Yet one more person stepped forward with a blank check, asking how she could help.
If stories are the currency of Nike's business, Pistorius is the equivalent of a blank check.
It's ye olde "blank check" argument -- easy to understand, and perhaps even persuasive.
Write down everything you spend (cash, check, credit or debit) in a blank check register, or a pocket notebook.
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Launched in 2007 as a "blank check" operation to make acquisitions, Gerova has gobbled up loans and insurance assets.
Obama said the plan continues to give Iraq's leaders a "blank check" instead of pressing them to take responsibility.
The second option is the blank check, starting with the ECB printing trillions in euros to buy up sovereign debt.
Reader's Digest Association Chairman Thomas Ryder brought in Klingel and gave him a blank check to clean up the circulation mess.
Dratel said he could not sign a blank check, documents that might commit him to regulations that have yet to be written.
The Obama administration arrived in Washington with a mandate from voters in one hand and a blank check from Congress in the other.
Translation: The blank check the Treasury gave Fannie and Freddie (on Christmas Eve 2009, when no one was supposed to notice) remains in force.
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"We can't afford to give this administration or any other administration a blank check, " he told Rumsfeld, who was joined at the hearing by Gen.
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The days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over.
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The problem is that defined-benefit plans act like a blank check.
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And this is new for him, because up until now the Republican Congress has given him a blank check with no oversight, no standards, no conditions.
However, due to the current economic volatility and pressure to be profitable, organizations can no longer afford to write a blank check for their marketing initiatives.
The newly elected Democrats in the House will be full of conservative southern "Blue Dogs, " and they're not likely to give Pelosi a blank check for anything.
"There are numerous examples of proxy proposals that combine multiple changes to a single corporate document, including elimination of the 'blank check' authority to issue preferred stock, " Apple stated.
The days of providing a blank check are over.
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The slang term for this is blank check.
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While he is held in high regard, critics are always quick to point out that Girardi had inherited a ball club that is consistently built for the postseason and operates with a blank check mentality.
Apple proposed the preferred stock amendment, the CEO said, after a broader review of its corporate governance practices and that the proposal is meant to eliminate the possibility of issuing so-called "blank check" preferred stock.
Well, you think of the Clintons because they made the comment about Senator Obama, and for those that love Senator Obama and also had respect for the Clintons because the Clintons pretty much have had a blank check with the African-American community for a long time, for them to make that comment was hurtful.
In other words, unleash the world of possibilities that a blank check and real freedom to innovate can open up, but with smarts about getting that check to the right kind of people facing the right kind of challenge, and, perhaps hardest of all, with serious discipline that will encourage, not stifle, creativity and ensure real progress toward the final goal.
But a blank-check policy on letting any and every Internet-enabled device onto you corporate network?
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And he adds that 7 of those 41 IPOs were of so-called blank-check firms, which are merely shell companies.
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