1.   A week later there arrived a check sufficient to launch a full-scale book donation program in Czechoslovakia.

2.   And lonely old men may get the virus from prostitutes who swarm to centers for the elderly on the days the Social Security checks arrive.

3.   And, conveniently, the checks would arrive in mid- to late October.

4.   A college student, for example, may have filed a tax return at school and moved before the check arrived.

5.   A check had arrived there, his assistant said, payable to Russell Baker, that had apparently been intended for me.

6.   A pension check arrives for the last surviving widow of an Arizona Ranger.

7.   After a week, though, no check had arrived.

8.   But he does more than sit back and wait for checks to arrive.

9.   But the check has not arrived.

10.   But Ross Longfield, an inventor from Far Hills, N.J., did not want to wait for the check to arrive in the mail.