Word: inspector
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...pamphlets on the science of tsunamis, set up patrols to stop looters and opened a nursery, a students' dormitory, a nutrition center and a teacher-training facility. He even held a kite-flying contest to encourage children to return to the beach. "What didn't he do?" asks police inspector Thushara Sena, 32. "He pulled people out, buried the dead ones and fed the live ones. He was the man people went to for everything. Still...
...stretches, the humor is mostly derived from sexual innuendo, which largely falls short. When the characters are trying to hold it together and failing, the interplay is far more interesting: the truly funny moments in the play come when Peter, Francis, and Brian are dealing with a drugged bank inspector propped against a wall, a mother with sharp hearing upstairs, two prostitutes in the bathroom, and a police officer at the door. When things are a bit more under control, the play tends to drag a bit. “No Sex Please, We’re British?...
...Number of days' notice the U.S. Labor Department agreed to give Wal-Mart stores before inspecting for child-labor violations, a move criticized by Labor's inspector general...
...that. "There had to be so many inches between the tables to go a step up," says leading New York chef David Bouley, who apprenticed at Michelin-starred restaurants in France. "You had to have certain kinds of china, glassware, linens." In the '80s, in fact, Michelin sent an "inspector" to assess New York's restaurants. His verdicts were never released, but the fact that no guidebook came of the exercise suggests that back then, at least, New York establishments couldn't pass the Michelin sniff test...
...that there were, and still are, SS killers at large. He believes that young Germans, wary of the sentimentality in the Anne Frank story, were unconvinced that the entire tragedy really happened until HE LOCATED KARL SILBERBAUER, THE SS SERGEANT WHO ARRESTED ANNE FRANK, AND IDENTIFIED HIM AS AN INSPECTOR IN THE VIENNESE POLICE DEPARTMENT. Silberbauer readily admitted his role. Asked if he had read the diary, he told a reporter: 'Bought the little book last week to see if I'm in it. But I'm not.' Silberbauer was reprimanded, and is now back on the Vienna force...