21.   No problem, Montreuil said, Maxwell would be getting its first check soon.

22.   People who wanted to wait could also have sent back their first checks.

23.   She cashed her first check Thursday.

24.   She said she told Lyons an accounting of the first check might help secure more money for the NBC.

25.   Six decades after Ida May Fuller of Ludlow Vermont received the first Social Security check, the program is bigger than ever in the lives of elderly American women.

26.   Temporary housing will arrive Monday, and the first federal checks for disaster relief are expected by Wednesday, Gore said.

27.   Take the first pay check, calculate the net amount over the summer and figure out a realistic budget.

28.   The back salary will be paid in the first check to council members in February.

29.   The first checks are going out this week to the families of employees whose compensation did not include sales commissions, the company said.

30.   The first checks could be mailed in about two weeks, said David Garick, an OBES spokesman.