Building costs (like rents) are high in Manhattan, but Blair is trying to keep expenses in check by using in-house construction crews and paying subcontractors bonuses to deliver work at the lowest possible cost.

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Mr Bush told reporters that someone had visited the four-bedroom house some weeks ago to check for sinkholes and other issues but found nothing wrong.

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Washington state's Democrat-controlled House failed this month to pass a universal background check bill.

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As the banks who sold on these mortgages were not putting up their own money as collateral, they no longer used their own in-house bank managers to assess the income of their borrowers and check the real value of the house they were giving a mortgage on.

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Michigan's John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee "offered a 24-hour background check to (Judiciary Committee Chairman) Mr. Hyde ... as long as there was some provision for holding ... the 5 to 8 percent of the applications that can't be cleared in 24 hours, " Clinton explained.

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Take extension leads and check the circuits of the house - it's always good to have a few fuses on hand in case of overload and consequent darkness!

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Mr Blair could then find himself on the wrong side of the argument: knocking down the hereditaries but obstructing calls for an upper house that is elected and therefore better able to check the over-mighty Commons.

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Authorities who went to Galfy's house on a welfare check after he failed to turn up at work found him Monday -- severely beaten, dressed only in socks and underwear.

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