41.   Leak checks are conducted when the sections are bolted together.

42.   Legislators spoke of closing the loophole, perhaps with a bill that would shift the onus of conducting background checks from local law-enforcement authorities to gun dealers.

43.   Licensed dealers are required to conduct such checks on all gun buyers.

44.   Massachusetts law requires that criminal background checks be conducted on nursing home employees, and Leonard said that officials did comply with that law.

45.   Officials in the Military Affairs Division said they did not conduct background checks, because the armory was essentially a third party in the hiring arrangements.

46.   On any Sunday, Candlestick seats seem equally occupied by both sexes, but the team has not conducted demographic checks to precisely gauge its female faithful.

47.   One can assume those banks conducted background checks and were satisfied with the results.

48.   Organizations that conduct background checks report a surge in requests over the last two months from companies that want to screen job applicants and employees.

49.   Police conduct background checks, take fingerprints, ask questions, check answers, figure out motives.

50.   Principals at every middle and high school are required to conduct random checks of students with hand-held metal detectors at least once a day, school officials said.