rubber check
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Karma, a thoroughbred mare that was once a racehorse, a Rubber Check Race horse and in training for Polocrosse, had her projects cut short after a life-threatening injury to her left front hoof in 2012.
From Washington Times
My party should never be a rubber stamp for rubber check spending.”
From New York Times
New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir says hundreds of leads and inquiries have come in from across the country and beyond since the Kimeses were nabbed July 5 in New York on a fraud warrant after a Lincoln Town Car they allegedly purchased with a rubber check was found with a loaded gun, a box of .22-cal. cartridges, wigs, $30,000 in cash, blood splatters and documents that may link them to the dead man and the missing banker.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the fastest-rising innovations is the rubber check that does not bounce; under such catchy names as "instant money," banks extend a line of credit to their checking-account customers, permit them to write checks up to that amount, charge them interest of 12%.
From Time Magazine Archive
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