I was going over your checkbook yesterday.

He has engaged in blatant checkbook diplomacy by giving away, with little to show for it, Venezuela s oil resources to countries like Cuba.

And the reason it has a fountain in the courtyard is I wanted one and I had the checkbook, so I bought one and put it there.

Third, Chinese aid is dispensed rather quickly and unceremoniously, lacking the burdensome fanfare of lengthy negotiations and voluminous project documents, a practice many scholars and practitioners term checkbook diplomacy.

Thirteen years and kids aren't taught how to grow a garden, how to build a house, how to fix a car, how to balance a checkbook, or how to cook a healthy meal.

He'll write out 100 here and he'll write it out in words, however a check looks, it just something that shows it has to be authenticated, so that when A takes it back to the bank, the bank believes that D actually wrote it in his checkbook as opposed to somehow A forging it.

So it's not like someone could in an ideal world, someone could not have stolen A's checkbook and signed for him because hopefully this bank has A's signature on record and can recognize when A has written a bad check or maybe, they'll even check with A to say if something is a little bit suspicious.