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Check washing is the process of erasing details from checks to allow them to be rewritten, usually for criminal purposes such as fraudulent withdrawal from the victim's bank account. [ 1 ] Various steps can be taken by the writer of the check to reduce the possibility of falling victim to check washing.
Whitewash is a cheap white paint or coating of chalked lime that can be used to quickly give a uniform clean appearance to a wide variety of surfaces, such as the interior of a barn. [2] The first known use of the term is from 1591 in England, referring literally to the process of coloring a surface. [1] [3]
No, it’s not a good idea to use white out on a check. If you made a mistake, neatly cross out the mistake with one line and write the correction above the mistake. Unfortunately, banks might ...
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares. The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
Head of Christ by Warner Sallman (1941) is the most widely reproduced image of Jesus, despite the fact that he was a Hebrew man from the Middle East. Whitewashing in art is the practice of altering the racial identity of historical and mythological figures in art as a part of a larger pattern of erasing and distorting the histories and contributions of non-whites.
When Lyndon Johnson was president, he apparently demanded the White House staff install a specialized shower that had the strength of a fire hydrant and nozzles pointed directly at his, well, manhood.
3. An employee's decision to join a union should be made in private. Employees should not have to reveal to anyone—employers or unions—how they exercise their right to choose whether to organize with their co-workers in a union. Moving to a card-check process rather than a federally supervised election tramples on employee privacy.
Greenwashing (a compound word modeled on "whitewash"), also called green sheen, [1] [2] is a form of advertising or marketing spin that deceptively uses green PR and green marketing to persuade the public that an organization's products, goals, or policies are environmentally friendly.