Word: exhaustiveness
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IMPROVEMENTS TO PROPERTY. The staff determined that $92,299 of improvements on the President's homes in Key Biscayne and San Clemente were "primarily for the President's personal benefit." Most of the questioned items were at San Clemente. They included $388.78 for an exhaust fan to keep the fireplace from smoking, $1,600 to enlarge four windows in the den and $998.50 for repairs on the family gazebo...
...assembly line at the insistence of the EPA in the first place. The part, designed by Chrysler engineers, is a sensor containing a ball of wax that softens when engine temperature rises to 60° F. The softening frees a valve that recirculates part of the car's exhaust gases through the engine and thereby eliminates some of the harmful nitrogen oxides that are emitted at high temperatures; when the temperature subsides, the wax ball hardens and closes the valve. At first, Chrysler designers placed the wax-ball sensor on the fire wall, a partition that separates the engine...
...wanted to have been married forever to one person, my ex-husband or my present one. Either has enough character for a whole life, which as it turns out is really not such a long time. You couldn't exhaust either man's qualities or get under the rock of his reasons in one short life...
...TIME'S photographs of Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 11] disclose a face like those icons of old Russian saints: full of sorrow, pity and love, but beneath that a vein of iron, a burning conviction and vast inner resources. The Soviet government will exhaust itself in trying to break his spirit...
...President. He not only handled the complicated purchase of Nixon's estate in San Clemente but had the clout on his own to get the Government to make thousands of dollars worth of improvements on the property that were charged off to "security," including a $388.78 exhaust fan for the fireplace. It was Frank DeMarco, Kalmbach's partner, who helped arrange Nixon's controversial gift to the nation of his vice-presidential papers, a donation that the President claimed as a $482,000 deduction on his income tax returns...