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Founder Dan Evins, a Tennessee oil jobber, envisioned a restaurant and retail operation themed around old-time country stores, where people gathered to play checkers on barrels once used to deliver crackers.

The Southern Section has deployed new investigative techniques to checker transfer paperwork submitted by schools.

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The CIA has a long and checkered history in the region over many years, but I don’t think any president has been dim enough to announce it in advance.

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“The checkers and the cashiers are on the front lines of this,” he said.

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California, biomass energy advocates say, has struggled to get past its distrust of the technology, given traditional biomass’ checkered past of clear-cutting forests and polluting poorer communities.

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